Am I dreaming or is this real?

[cartoonchaos]

I know that I might be a little out of the loop... I just heard about this today....



The Wacom Cintiq. Guys... you can now draw directly on your computer monitor. The thing even rotates like an animation disc. I'm.... i'm blown away at what this does for animation. Here's the story.

My friend Nate has one now. He says its incredible.

Did you guys know about this???

Paper.... is obsolete.

[cartoonchaos]

Oh, and its my Birthday today! Yay!

Somebody buy me a Cintiq....

[sajdera]

You got a few thousand bucks lyng around?

[blinkmetoys]

If i was made of money all my computers would have one as its monitor.

But, I am not and so i just have a wacom tablet instead.

This is quite an interesting story. There is a web comic titled "Apple Geeks"
( http://applegeeks.com/index.php )

The artist is pretty talented and does some cool work. So what he did was sell off some work and original sketches on ebay until he had enough for one of these. He got his goal in abouth a month or so.

[ScatteredLogical]

I'm impressed he was perceptive enough to know what would sell. Unless he took requests/did portraiture or something. Either way kudos to him!

[Harvey Human]

Originally Posted by cartoonchaos

I know that I might be a little out of the loop... I just heard about this today....

I first saw this sort of thing at a computer convention about 12 years ago. They were much smaller back then - maybe an 8 inch screen - and cost around 3 or 4 thousand.

[Spoooze!]

Originally Posted by sajdera

You got a few thousand bucks lyng around?

It'll get cheaper as time goes by.
Of course by then they may come out with something even better...

James

[ScatteredLogical]

Harvey, out of curiosity, the 8-inch displays, were they flat or more monitor-like?

[Harvey Human]

This was a flat LCD screen.

I did a little research, and what I saw might have been part of Wacom's PL series, which debuted in 1992.

You can do a search for Wacom PL-100v - which was their greyscale series - or Wacom PL-200v - which was their first color series, or simply for "wacom pl."
There were competitors at that time, so what I saw may not have been from Wacom.

Remember that this was the era when the pen-operated tablet PC was hot (people might remember the Apple Newton), and this was Wacom's foray into that market.

So, yeah, "interactive pen displays" didn't pop up overnight. They've just been gradually growing larger and more sophisticated over the past 14 years or so. Possibly the reason they're so unknown is because the price range has always been beyond the average consumer.

[NOOB!]

i think every digital artist has heard of the cintiq,and also every artist has forgot about it when they saw the price.