Cintiq



I've been wanting a cintiq for a couple years now. It's a wacom screen you can actually draw on with a pen, instead of using a mouse. Technically you can draw on all screens with a sharpie but you only get to do it once. It's a bit of expensive kit, so I was worried it was going to end up being a paperweight. (I'm talking to you sony psp!)

I've only had it for a bit, but I find it improves my work flow with
photography - masking difficult areas and hand retouching
video - rotoscoping and wire removal
design - adding hand drawn elements
audio - increases audio editing speed

So basically you can have it back over my cold dead body.

I ended up getting the 21 instead of the 12 based on Kevin's advice. Kevin works at a big animation house. The kind that make movies about ursine martial artists. I know him and another guy there named Tim. Tim used to work at a company that made movies about vegetables that sing. It was good advice.

I got mine as a floor demo for $1800. I've since seen it refurbed for $1500. The 12 inch model is around $1000. If you don't need to be on the mac side, look for an older tablet (like from motion computing) that uses the wacom screen technology. I have seen them for around $650 on closeout and you could probably get a used one for $400.

This pic from above is one of my first quick tests. I was trying something in the marvel comics style for a tour poster.

Posted: Tue - January 6, 2009 at 01:11 PM          

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