Drawing Tablet!!!!!! questions

Question

ok hi I am a animator like I make animations and stuff and I currently use a mouse and I was wondering is a drawing tablet alot better for me? I have windows XP and I was wondering if there's like any thing I should know before I just go out and bye one! and any useful information about one too. Thanks

Answer 1

Look into getting a Graphire Tablet.  I have one!  It is great!!  It can sense different pressures you put on when drawing and thus makes for good, stylistically varied brush/penstrokes.  You can achieve a lot more with a tablet, is what I mean.  

Good luck!

Answer 2

Well let's be more specific, the type of tablet I think you should get but costly would be a Wacom Cintiq, you hook it up to your computer, and then you literally draw on the tablet while looking at it there are some links below on vids you can check out, if you want something cheaper I would suggest a Wacom Pen Tablet, you hook it up to your computer and draw on the tablet while looking on the computer screen (takes the real drawing effect away)... Using a mouse isn't comfortable to draw for animators like you, doing digital works should apply more to tablet style drawing... Make sure to get the bigger size tablet, it makes all the difference... So from a regular tablet the costs are between maybe $100 - $500 dollars depending on what product you get... The Cintiq costs from $1000 - $2000 dollars... Hope this information helps XD

Answer 3

You're currently using a mouse to do animation? That's pretty rough. You should definitely invest in a graphic tablet. I'm an animation student and I was talking with the studio director of an animation studio here where I live and he mentioned that all animation will most likely eventually go all paperless, meaning done entirely with tablets. The recent Goofy short, "How to hook up your Home Theatre" was roughed in on paper, but clean-up and painting was done entirely on the computer with graphic tablets.

MSPaint is much too simple a program, and probably won't accept a graphic tablet input. But other illustration, animation and digital image editing software will.