Hi Guys,

I just purchased my first Wacom and man it takes some getting use to. Anyone have any tips on setup etc?

Cheers
Paul

sry no tips, but what is Wacom?????

Its a pressure sensitive Graphic Tablet. So when drawing/paint you're using more of a natural pen action.

I'm really bad at it at the moment :headbang:

Cheers
Paul

aw ok thanks, so sound pretty cool. how much do they cost????

Its a Warcom Graphire 3 (G-630), its an older model I think. In any case I paid $135AUD for it around $100USD

My 6 year old is playing with it now, so I have to wait until he is finished with it!

Cheers
Paul

My Son's first work with the warcom!

Attached Thumbnails

how cute. .he is an artist

The only tips I'd say BMS is to keep using it, even when you can do the easy option and pick the mouse up

Eventually you'll start liking it more than the mouse (though not if you use your machine mainly for games or writing documents.

Look up some photoshop texturing tutorials as well and try and finish them.

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this may sound cheap but i did it and it helped loads
basicaly have a sketch the sixe of the drawing area (can b ur own or a print out)
config tablet so that for that app the drawing area on the board represents the drawing space on the comp(canvas)
and trace it

i donno y but i prefer to draw in corel rather that photoshop

its cheating i know but u will learn better conrol of ur hand eye coord wen using it then draw a similar style with out tracing
it worked for me check on my site under projects and wacom
this was the second thing i drew after my tracing session an im getting better evry time and so will u its just pratice

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Now at SMU doing BSc 3D Computer Animation so its hard to get on here
My wire render tut https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=20973

Thanks Guys,

I'll take both suggestions on board and hopefully get better at this stuff.

Cheers
Paul

p.s, I like your son's drawings - looks like he's into cars and planes lots!

Simon

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Examples of bTraffic - a traffic animation tool for Maya
bFlocking - a tool for Maya 8.5+ to generate flocking and swarming behaviours
Jan/Feb Challenge 2007 Entry and W.I.P
May/Jun Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Mar/Apr Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Jan/Feb Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Nov/Dec Challenge 2005 Entry and W.I.P
Sep/Oct Challenge 2005 Entry and W.I.P
Jul/Aug Challenge 2005 Entry
www.flash-fx.net

Thanks Simon,

He is into cars and planes like you wouldn't believe!

If you want to have a real laugh, have a look at his Maya Work!

Here is the Thread I started

Cheers
Paul

cool

make him stick with low poly at the minute so he doesn't pick any bad habits up

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Examples of bTraffic - a traffic animation tool for Maya
bFlocking - a tool for Maya 8.5+ to generate flocking and swarming behaviours
Jan/Feb Challenge 2007 Entry and W.I.P
May/Jun Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Mar/Apr Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Jan/Feb Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Nov/Dec Challenge 2005 Entry and W.I.P
Sep/Oct Challenge 2005 Entry and W.I.P
Jul/Aug Challenge 2005 Entry
www.flash-fx.net