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#72That's so cool. The music adds much more fun to it. Great job!
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#73Combine http://kickassapp.com/, http://kathack.com/ and font bomb for hours of fun.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never used a tablet, but I guess you have to build muscle memory to correctly map tablet -> screen coordinates, right?
It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly; it's not quite like keyboard chording. And you adjust very quickly when things change — I have no trouble going back and forth between a large Intuos (12x8" active area) and the Bamboo Connect (5.8x3.6") I carry around in my laptop bag (except that I really miss the spinner and buttons).
> It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly
I assume you have a great deal of previous drawing experience? In my experience, people without tens of thousands of hours of drawing experience find it extremely difficult to adapt to using a wacom tablet to control the mouse. I’m sure it can be done, but an hour is an incredibly optimistic time estimate.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly; it's not quite like keyboard chording. And you adjust very quickly when things change — I have no trouble going back and forth between a large Intuos (12x8" active area) and the Bamboo Connect (5.8x3.6") I carry around in my laptop bag (except that I really miss the spinner and buttons).
> It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly I assume you have a great deal of previous drawing experience? In my experience, people without tens of thousands of hours of drawing experience find it extremely difficult to adapt to using a wacom tablet to control the mouse. I’m sure it can be done, but an hour is an incredibly optimistic time estimate.
Strange, as I've got used to my Wacom Bamboo in less than half a day without much drawing experience.
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#76doesn't work in opera thanks
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly; it's not quite like keyboard chording. And you adjust very quickly when things change — I have no trouble going back and forth between a large Intuos (12x8" active area) and the Bamboo Connect (5.8x3.6") I carry around in my laptop bag (except that I really miss the spinner and buttons).
> It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly I assume you have a great deal of previous drawing experience? In my experience, people without tens of thousands of hours of drawing experience find it extremely difficult to adapt to using a wacom tablet to control the mouse. I’m sure it can be done, but an hour is an incredibly optimistic time estimate.
I've been using tablets since 1995 or so, and I can hardly write legibly, let alone draw. My motivation was realizing how much I preferred the trackpad on my PowerBook to a mouse, and the lack of any decent desktop trackpads at the time. So I tried the tablet, which worked even better!
One tip: try the various sizes of tablet, as tastes differ; some find the larger tablets tiring, others find the smaller tablets fidgety, and, in my own experience, display size also plays an important role (the "large" Intuos is perfect paired with a 27" display, for instance, while the "small" feels more natural paired with a MacBook Air; while you can compensate by restricting the active area on the tablet, I've never been a big fan of doing so, nor with spanning the tablet area across multiple displays).
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#78Very, very nice movie. (Watch it with the sound on.) That sense of timing would improve a lot of e.g. paid-for product demo movies.
Timing animations with sound really does make a huge difference. The whole experience seems fuller and more well rounded, and it's usually not that hard to do.
Parks and Recreation, the TV show from the creators of the American version of The Office, has an intro that demonstrates this quite well.
The first intro times the introduction of the title text to the first jingle in the song, and then the beats to the frame transitions, which feels playful and fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7f4CgATiE
Then in Season 3, they rearranged the sequence to fit the new characters in, and the whole thing feels boring and out of sync:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTgIJdcIpj0
I literally wince every time I watch it. I've always wondered whether it was the same people that worked on it, and what the story behind it was.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly; it's not quite like keyboard chording. And you adjust very quickly when things change — I have no trouble going back and forth between a large Intuos (12x8" active area) and the Bamboo Connect (5.8x3.6") I carry around in my laptop bag (except that I really miss the spinner and buttons).
> It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly I assume you have a great deal of previous drawing experience? In my experience, people without tens of thousands of hours of drawing experience find it extremely difficult to adapt to using a wacom tablet to control the mouse. I’m sure it can be done, but an hour is an incredibly optimistic time estimate.
For the record, I'm a photographer, not a graphic artist. Sure, I doodled a bit as a kid and have tried my hand at drawing from time to time (who hasn't?) but tens of thousands of hours is at least an order of magnitude off as an estimate, and the time I did put in wasn't consistent or contiguous.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you using a wacom tablet to browse the web? Isn't that for drawing?
Once you go absolute-position, it's hard to go back. With a mouse, you need to be aware of where the cursor is ; with a tablet you just need to know where you want it to be.
Can you go into more detail about the benefits of using a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse? I know absolutely nothing about Wacom tablets, but this sounds interesting and I'd love to hear more.