Video Game Art

ignition wrote:Wow some of these are amazing! I'm really interested in getting into the autodesk stuff, but I see there is a huge price range for tablets, is it a case of you get what you pay for? Or are there some quality cheaper ones out there?

out of my experience with tablets it is a case of what you pay is what you get I mean I got a simple cheap as chips wacom (always best to stick with wacom tablets) at around £35 and it didn't last very long and wasn't very good for the amount of work I did and the scale I worked at. Recently I saved up and got a wacom intuos 3 costing me nearly £300 but it was well worth it! You pay for size more then anything my one is an A4 one at the moment

Wykesie wrote:

ignition wrote:Wow some of these are amazing! I'm really interested in getting into the autodesk stuff, but I see there is a huge price range for tablets, is it a case of you get what you pay for? Or are there some quality cheaper ones out there?

out of my experience with tablets it is a case of what you pay is what you get I mean I got a simple cheap as chips wacom (always best to stick with wacom tablets) at around £35 and it didn't last very long and wasn't very good for the amount of work I did and the scale I worked at. Recently I saved up and got a wacom intuos 3 costing me nearly £300 but it was well worth it! You pay for size more then anything my one is an A4 one at the moment

Woah! That's a lot of mahones!

Would you perhaps advise getting a cheaper forty quid one first? Just to be sure that its the sort of thing I'm gonna want to keep going with and not potentially wasting several hundred pounds!

ignition wrote:Woah! That's a lot of mahones!

Would you perhaps advise getting a cheaper forty quid one first? Just to be sure that its the sort of thing I'm gonna want to keep going with and not potentially wasting several hundred pounds!

oh yeah definately if you are just dabbling in the pools of using graphics tablets that's where to start

I have an A5 Intuos 3 that I wouldn't mind selling. Depends if you can pick up or not though, postage would be tricky.

So what can I expect from a cheaper model then? Less sensitivity/control and the like? (alongside a smaller screen of course).

Also, how do you get started learning how to use the graphics programs? I had a (very) quick look through youtube, and just saw loads of speeded up vids of people drawing and rendering amazing things in no time at all!

ignition wrote:So what can I expect from a cheaper model then? Less sensitivity/control and the like? (alongside a smaller screen of course).

Also, how do you get started learning how to use the graphics programs? I had a (very) quick look through youtube, and just saw loads of speeded up vids of people drawing and rendering amazing things in no time at all!

Yeah less control and sensitivity with some braces and cheap models that's why it is best to stick with wacom brands.

Well with me I just messed around with different programs and kinda learnt it myself. But you can find easy tutorials on the net and things for basic instructions. But everyone works differently.

Tragic Magic wrote:I have an A5 Intuos 3 that I wouldn't mind selling. Depends if you can pick up or not though, postage would be tricky.

Depends on where you live really! How much would you be asking for it? All in good nick?

I live in Leicester. It's all in good nick, I only used it a couple of times, don't have the box though. Probably looking for £120 if someone came out to pick it up. Think it cost me £200 or something when I first got it. What a waste that turned out to be!

I think I'll be picking up one of the Wacom Intuos4 as soon as I get back into full time work I already have a decent graphics programme I can use with it in the form of Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2010.

I really wouldn't be able to offer any advice on graphics tablets though as I have never used one myself at the moment I think if you think you have got the natural talent for art and you think it's worth your hard earned money investing in some good quality kit then go for it.

Everything I've posted up here so far has been freehand drawn in pencils and scanned in on the computer, I'd love to try and make it as an artist in some form and I think digitizing your talents would be an important factor in being able to do that, what with me not really being qualified in art or anything

On a slightly unrelated note, I think the next piece I'll try and have a go at will be of the 'Lone Wolf' Spartan from the as yet unreleased Halo Reach seems like a cool customer!

Tragic Magic wrote:I live in Leicester. It's all in good nick, I only used it a couple of times, don't have the box though. Probably looking for £120 if someone came out to pick it up. Think it cost me £200 or something when I first got it. What a waste that turned out to be!

Blimey! I couldn't really be further away from you in Southampton! The closest I think I could get to you is Birmingham at the beginning of March, since I'm going there with a uni sports tour I've organised.

Although I would also be travelling there and back in a coach and if the tablet doesn't have any box or packaging it could get damaged very easily!