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Meatballsub

This is more of a question rather than a display of art. Has anybody tried using a graphics tablet to draw things in-game, such as enemy or hero sprites? Just wondering if it might be worth checking out.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

It can be done, but I wouldn't recommend doing any precision work with it due to how shaky hands can get.

Use a tablet for doing initial outline work to create the shape of whatever you're drawing, but then switch to mouse/keyboard to clean up the rest as well as shading.
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Meatballsub · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:50 am Post subject:

Yeah, I didn't see it as a tool to do shading with, but rather the initial outlining as you stated.
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AdrianX · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

..here at work,most of us use the pen tablet to draw the overall shape of the sprite.it's sort of a "rule" here.outlines and shading will be done using the mouse.

Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

I'm not sure why I didn't see this thread sooner, but I can tell you that yes I have drawn from inside the OHR with a tablet. At least up until Aeth did his W:P1 review it was well known that I did all the graphics with a tablet from inside the OHR, and in fact it was something of an oddity that my tablet would work inside the OHR (remember, this was back in the DOS days, and most tablets don't work in DOS programs). Of course now days using a tablet with the OHR isn't as impressive since the OHR is no longer DOS.

The copy of W:P1 that's in the gamelist is mostly tablet inside the OHR, though that does not hold true for the copy on my computer anymore. But for the record I now do 99% of the graphics in Adobe because i can make faint and smooth sketches (with the brush tool) and then color over them (with the pencil tool).

EDIT: No, I did not do outlines with tablet and then switch to the mouse. It was tablet all the way. However I do have to point out that the VERY earliest of the W:P1 graphics were done with the keyboard mouse because I didn't have a tablet and my mouse was broken.
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