I must be the only person who actually uses a 4x5 by the sound of it :P For me the convenience of being able to throw my wacom into a smaller backpack compartment when traveling about makes allot of sense considering it's getting moved from one place to another almost daily. But, as stated above, to each their own.
Probably the best thing for a beginner is to stick with Blender for now and pick up Maya a little bit later. If you're a student be sure to take advantage of the student licenses for Autodesk's programs. It's good to pick up a 2d program like Krita or Photoshop as well to do textures and sketches. If you're serious about…
Hey Jackwhat, as i'm in the middle of trying to solve out a problem yet have no solution I'll do my best to reply to your post. I come from a traditional art background, majored in children's books in my final year of my Illustration BA. I've done life drawing, oil painting, and used various medias to convey imagery. I've…
With tablet he might mean those new-ish wacom mobile studio pros. They do have computers in them and from what I heard are okish (?) for zbrush and sculpting. No idea about mobile phones and what might be there usage apart from sketching.
Yeah its not for everyone I use it mainly to try to alternate things now and again. If im using it i have it to my left and a wacom on my right and a keyboard with no numberpad in the middle just to save deskspace. Might be no harm to use Workrave or something like it.
Does it always use both monitors? Have you messed with the Wacom Tablet properties at all? I usually have my tablet set to only work on one monitor at all times. You can set up program specific properties as well.
Happy Halloween! For last week I was painting 7 monsters for Wacom Halloween contest https://www.behance.net/portfolio/editor?project_id=30689555 and some process videos. Painted in Corel Painter :) https://youtu.be/Z4BpZXvlqyU https://youtu.be/TBAjFmkFCyo https://youtu.be/02Q0J1Qj_5c
I love Wacom, and have an old, cheap bamboo tablet. Anyway, here's a recent thread that might help you: http://polycount.com/discussion/171536/hardware-question-tablets-which-do-you-use Regarding the display, it's a matter of personal preferences: I'm not a big fan of it.
If you have a wacom tablet that supports rotation you should be able to do this just by setting the 'foreground/background jitter' setting to 'rotation' under 'colour dynamics' in the brush editor. However I can't test it because I've only got a graphire on this computer.
wacom needs some anal QA, esp. for their design department - there's a ton mini-usb devices out there, and intuos 4 board is one the most poorly designed ones their gadgets have been steadily declining in build quality over the past five years or so, while their prices don't seem to go much lower