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Wacom’s been busy lately, they just released new model called Bamboo, which, if I’m not mistaken, is for casual user, (judging from utterly childish-looking homepage, I haven’t a patience to take a look around), and now they are releasing another new model, Cintiq 12WX, which is basically a mini Cintiq. With 12.5″ wide-screen for drawing directly on it, you probably don’t feel very good using it, kinda like trying to do cg in laptop I’d think, but hey, portability and ergonomic probably made this worth a shot. I know I’d get one if I had money.

altho, at £829.99, (1700$) The price isn’t very mini. You can buy a macbook or imac with that.

Cintiq 12WX will be released in November 2007.

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first, out of the blue, my wacom went wanky, it’s not totally broken, it has what I called ‘wiggling spot’ where the line will jiggle no matter what, I can still work on it but it gave me headache and I had to give in.

400$ short later, I got new wacom and went on my merry way.

then, probably a week later, my bro’s pc broke. which enough to send me bonkers, because I was using his pc to connect to the net, the only ADSL modem I had doesn’t work with mac, after it was sure that I couldn’t salvage his pc at all, I was left without internet connection.

shari - internet = dead shari

good thing that problem is easily fixed by just buying a new router, 100$ short, but I’m whole again.

new family member, wirelss router, the ‘babyluv’I should have gotten it ages ago, but I keep pushing it off because the old set up still work, I have a mantra of not fixing what’s not broken ^^;;

my bro’s pc remain broken tho, and it is somehow my responsibility to fix it, ah, the cost of being older.

The bad luck not ending there, today I woke up intend to play some L2 after all the works done, while I was downloading patch, my pc froze, and I can’t do anything but forced restart (read: pull the plug), and it just went downhill from there, I end up wiping the xp partition off the hd and reinstall it on other hd, it works now, but, it smells like something is burning, none of the fan is working except for processor fan, I think I need new case if not whole new pc.

bonus pic: my bro’s pc

what will break next?! (don’t answer, please T^T)

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if you don’t know what Cintiq is, I could tell you that it’s probably a wet dream for every digital artist, It’s a “interactive pen display” or put it more simply, it’s a LCD screen that is also a tablet. with price tag of 3,000$, it remains in the dream (wet or not) for many amateur artists.

I have heard about it years ago, but I never personally seen or tried real thing until today, I was fortunate enough to arrive early and the shop was not busy, the salesperson was very sweet and friendly, and we chat alot and she encourage me and my friend to try it out for as long as we like and come back for more, I told her the shop should make it available for rental, hahaha

Cintiq itself works as good as a 3000$ gadget should. It felt very different, not really like drawing on paper but not like working on normal tablet either, for one thing, it made controlling the line much more easily, making work that require precise line like sketching and inking goes much faster, I actually stood there and sketched and inked the whole picture in about 20mins, pity I didn’t save.

one concern I have had with cintiq when I first heard it is that it would be too hot to work on for long period of time, that was what happened with tablet pc that rendered it unusable >: ( but I found out that heat isn’t the issue at all and it seems that I have no other excuse not to get it beside money XD

does anyone want my kidney? :D

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