would you reccomend a tablet?
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relaxis
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Would you recommend a tablet for those users of us that have no scanner and wish desperately to create some DECENT graphics for our games?
Posted on 2006-07-05 13:31:52
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mcgrue
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Only if said tablet owner is good enough at art to warrant it. A tablet isn't a magic pill to better art, it's just another medium.
Also, cheap scanners are cheaper than cheap tablets, I think.
Posted on 2006-07-05 15:48:39
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relaxis
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true but it's much easier to trace over a drawing that's youve done on paper with a tablet than to scan in a picture and have to do all that inking.
Posted on 2006-07-05 17:40:25
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Kildorf
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Actually, I don't think I've ever used the "trace over a drawing" functionality of a tablet, ever. I personally have never thought that it was terribly great for that.
Why can't you ink before you scan? I suspect that you'll get much better results that way than attempting to trace with a tablet.
That said, tablets can be pretty great once you get used to using them. I use a tablet to do my tile art for Geas, and I like to think it looks pretty friggin' swanky because of it.
Posted on 2006-07-05 21:14:33
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tulokyn
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Augh! Using the tracing shield is awful. It's even worse than digital inking, and that's saying something, coming from me.
Personally, I would get a scanner before a tablet. Tablets have a fair bit of a learning curve. They're not just like drawing on paper. Paper as texture and tooth, and a tablet is a slick plastic sheet with a slick plastic pen. You don't get nearly as much feedback from your tool. Tablets have a tendency to make your art look worse while you're still getting used to it.
If you have trouble inking your work without it bleeding everywhere and turning into a fuzzy mess, take a look at your pens and your paper. Smooth Bristol is quite nice for inking, as are most types of marker paper. Sketchbook paper is pretty awful for inking cleanly, and plain printer paper is just asking for leaky fuzzy mess.
Posted on 2006-07-05 21:35:50
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Gayo
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I can't even begin to imagine using a tablet for pixel art. I'd recommend you save your money and practice doing your large art pieces digitally. If you have a pencil-and-paper rough to work off of it's just as effective, especially for low resolutions where you need to do a lot of pixel-by-pixel tweaking anyway.
Posted on 2006-07-05 21:38:23
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mcgrue
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I'm shocked Tuk is still alive! I figured Kild had gutted her to survive a harsh candian winter's night in her steaming entrails!
Posted on 2006-07-05 22:02:35
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relaxis
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speaking of canada, It's my 3rd week living in toronto now and I was walking past the baptist church on canada day - great big sign saying "God bless Canada" and someone and had sprayed in "eh!" on the end...
Posted on 2006-07-06 06:22:20
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Falthorn
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Yeah, get a tablet. Even for the smallest of sprites, creating a smooth arc of pixels with a tablet pen is infinitely easier.
Take it from someone who pixelled and colored with a mouse for years before moving to a tablet. Pressure sensitivity isn't crucial until you move into higher resolutions, but it makes drawing and animating much quicker.
Using a mouse feels like you're pushing pixels around until they're the right shape, using a tablet lets you put them where you want.
Posted on 2006-07-06 18:08:51
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