Well, im just very curious in what peoples opions on the question - What Wacom Tablet works best with Zbrush? Are… I defintaly wanna buy one and integrate it into my workflow, I just wanna make the right decision. Thanks for any input.
The intuos is good. I started with a graphire, but upgraded and it’s so much nicer.
COuld you give me the name of the exact one you use. That would be great.
They’re all essentially the same really… I use a 6x8 Intuos³ because I’m more comfortable with medium to short strokes. I know guys who use a 4x6 because they use only short strokes, and some who use 12x19 because they’re used to large format. Honestly there’s not much difference other than the way you’re used to working with traditional mediums…
Probably the Cintiq 
I’ve been trying to figure out how many convenience stores I’d have to knock over to buy one… :idea: If only I hadn’t let my wife know how much they cost…
I don’t really like the cintique… I like being able to see the entire work in front of me and not have the obstruction of my hand and pen. I think the cintique is more aimed at artists who never really adapted to normal tablets… once you’re adapted to a tablet, I don’t see the point in owning a cintique.
Hahahaha, this question just never dies, thead after thread after thread.
What can you afford? It’s that simple. 
That’s an interesting observation; I had never thought of it like that but although I’ve never tried a cintique I can see the sense of what you say. Some money saved.
Hmmm, well I disagree. I love the Cintiq, greatest tool yet. I’ve been using Wacom tablets since they came onthe market and I love them. The Cinitq though is worth every penny - at least in a production environment where speed is money. Of course if you just think of it as a tablet, you are missing the point.
I use cintique at work and I must say I agree with you, I’m so used to my intuos at home that I actually perfer to use intuos over cintique, and IMO cintique is not as accurate as intuios and takes longer to adapt.
Thats just me though:p
I have a question for all you Wacom users out there.
Right now I’m using a Intuos3 9x12 on a standard 5:4 ratio 17" monitor at 1280x1024…everything works fine.
Now for the question…has/does anyone use this same 9x12 on a widescreen 16:9/16:10 format monitor and if so how does it work? Can you reach all areas of the screen still? is it still as precise as using it on the 4:3 ratio monitor?
The reason I ask is that my wife’s monitor has died so I’m thinking about giving her mine and upgrading to a widescreen for myself…lol. I have talked her into this but not sure I can/would want to try to talk her into me needing a new widescreen tablet also…if you know what I mean…lol.
Please let me know before she changes her mind:lol:
Escape
I found the widescreen tablet a lot of “property”.
I found myself wrestling with it. But then, I never got the hang of a Tablet.
I have a Cintiq now and that was the best buy ever. People say it introduces a lot of ‘painting on paper’ issues back into the workflow. I must say that those simply do not swivel it. Any case, my seating position brings my wife always to laughter. I have a drafting chair and hang on it most of the time on my knees while attacking the Cintiq more or less from above while wildly swiveling it back and forth. It’s the best thing ever. If you are excentric enough to fall in love with it. My PS masking goes 300% faster than with the tablet which always leads to cramped work. With the cintiq I am in the flow. But that’s all very subjective. Best is to try it out.
Cheers Lemo
PS:Since I have the Cintiq all my Backpain has vanished. Must be the Cintiq Yoga.
Escape,
something to try: Grab a cd and drop it on your tablet. With your stylus, draw a circle using the center hole of the CD. Does it result in a true circle displayed by your draw/paint software?
Imagine using the same tablet with a wide-format display. Or, try remapping your current tablet to just part of drawing surface and check again for distortion. Try checking the mapping/force proportions box and see what that does to the circle.
I think a person’s eye-hand coordination tends to compensate for any xy ratio distortion, but for me, I decided I needed to get the Intuos3 6x11 tablet.
You can probably stay with the 9x12 remapping just part of the tablet surface…
Sven
Thanks Lemo and Sven,
I’ve decided to stay with the standard screen instead of a widescreen due to distortion issues with my workflow (I like to concept on paper and trace over with my wacom).
I have been looking for a few weeks now at monitors (specing them out, doing a visual comparison instore) and I was just wondering if anyone has a Samsung SyncMaster 204B Black as I’m planing on getting one as it seems the best for the dollar amount.
If anyone has any input on this monitor I’d love to hear it.
Thanks,
Escape
I have a wacom intuous 9x12 with a 22" westinghouse 16:9 widescreen lcd, and a 17" 4:3 norcent lcd as the dual . I have always mapped my tablet to “mouse mode” with my pen anyways since I’m using duals, and it works like a dream. Don’t know how i ever got along with my old graphire 2, 4" tablet back in the day!