Wacom inkling

Antihippy

Not sure how many people here are actually interested in graphics tablets, but the new wacom inkling looks pretty amazing to me, mostly because drawing with my intuos 4 is not the same as drawing with paper and not having to use shitty as shit live trace to vectorise ink drawing would be a godsend. Price seems just right too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbBA1DRE84&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhvTQWjLw5g&feature=relmfu

bowen

I saw this too, looks pretty awesome. I'd be interested in it, I draw a lot better on paper than I do on tablets or anything.

TychoCelchuuu

I'm not an artist, but my thoughts are that this is super cool but also $200 that you could save just by using your scanner and some free time. Still, super convenient.

bowen

Well I imagine the use for this is to hand draw on a better surface than tablets (which may have a higher learning curve) and have the ability to import the layers you decided and vectorize your work. It's pretty nicely priced for what it is, I thought.

Antihippy

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

I'm not an artist, but my thoughts are that this is super cool but also $200 that you could save just by using your scanner and some free time. Still, super convenient.

Unless you get a dedicated scanner for around the same price or most probably something more expensive I find that the fidelity and how clean the scan turns out is often not very good at all.

Plus live trace is terrible. Unless I'm doing something wrong, but I've never found the results of live trace to be good at all.

Of course, we still have yet too see how good the fidelity of this is going to turn out, but if it can convert the sketches to clean vector lines and not distort the image like live trace does I'd say that it's worth the $200.

edit: oh wow, just realised that the pen is proprietory.

Wacom better not let those be bullshit to refill/replace.

Can't wait to see if it's going to do what I hope that it'll do.

MarySue

On the one hand, I'm all, "OOH! SHINY! WANT!" but on the other hand I want to wait and see what people who actually, you know, have used it have to say about the product.

I really, really love the idea of being able to add layers as you sketch on paper. I hate the proprietary ink, and I have yet to be able to find out the range on the pen (can I only sketch on a weentsy Moleskein or can I use my big ol' honking newsprint tablets that I love unconditionally?)

totally

This is neat, not sure if i would ever buy one, but still super neat. I use a both a wacom cintiq 12wx and a sketchbook/scanner daily so I am not sure if would buy something like this versus an Ipad for plein air digital painting. But damn it just reeks of the future. I want to demo one super bad now.

Aioua

MarySue wrote:

On the one hand, I'm all, "OOH! SHINY! WANT!" but on the other hand I want to wait and see what people who actually, you know, have used it have to say about the product.

I really, really love the idea of being able to add layers as you sketch on paper. I hate the proprietary ink, and I have yet to be able to find out the range on the pen (can I only sketch on a weentsy Moleskein or can I use my big ol' honking newsprint tablets that I love unconditionally?)

Looks like the largest supported size is A4
http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Inkling/Inkling-Technical-Specifics.aspx

EDIT: Lots of good info on that page. It says the ink refill is standard Mini Ballpoint. From my googling, I think its a refill for art-type pens, but hey, it's not propietary.

Also accuracy is +/- 2.5 mm? That... doesn't seem very good at all.

EDIT EDIT: Also it apparently tracks via ultrasonic and infrared. So it can be used to scare away both dogs and witches!

Antihippy

Yeah, the accuracy seems pretty wack, so I'm waiting for some reviews.

MarySue

Aioua wrote:

Lots of good info on that page. It says the ink refill is standard Mini Ballpoint. From my googling, I think its a refill for art-type pens, but hey, it's not propietary.

I did some Google shopping and it looks like they'll run about $1 to $5 USD each per refill, depending on manufacturer. And we all know how artist-types get about their ink (STEP AWAY FROM MY UNIBALL DELUXE MICROS AND NO ONE GETS HURT).

My concern now is how fast I'd blow through a refill because those don't hold a lot of ink.

So, again. Waiting for hands on reviews with baited breath.