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[fluffpot]

Reading Snow Crash (for the first time ever) in 2008 is kind of unnerving. It's basically here, the Metaverse is Second Life. He even called the penis avatars. The meatspace technology, like smartwheels and Rat Things seems like it'll come 'round in about 20-30 years.

(Also, Hiro Protagonist? Stephenson has got a hilarious set of writers ballsOH

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[idyllic]

I use this:

http://direct.wacom.com/stores/5/Intuos3_6x8_P772C49.cfm

The size thing...hm. It can be a PITA sometimes, but that could just be my awkwrdness at using it (I haven't had mine for long). If anything it's kind of shocking to see how much bigger shit looks on screen than you might imagine. The other day I was handlettering something from an image that was less than 8.5 x 11...probably slightly smaller than the drawing area of the tablet...but it was too big for the artboard in Illustrator, so no matter how far down I started, it kept going off into the control panel. I finally resolved it by zooming out a basquillion times and changing the view to "fill screen" or whatever. So the lesson I learned is to always trace stuff in that view mode. I'm also still pretty awkward with making the pressure sensitivity work, but I hope that's just me being a noob and will resolve with practice.

Don't know about scanners. Been meaning to get one of those.

First I need a job.

[fluffpot]

The size thing seems to be a non-issue for people who've been using tablets for a while. I would probably have a fit with the 4x5, I'm not too experienced with tablets myself. I think I may go for the intuos3 myself.

Thanks for the input!

(I also need a job, luckily I still have graduation checks to burn. Thought you had one, or maybe that was an internship? Are you done with grad school I can't keep anything straight.)

[idyllic]

I don't anticipate it will be a big deal. I actually think the bigger ones are probably more of a PITA to use. Since the tablet area corresponds to your screen, all you have to do is make sure you let the artboard fill the entire screen. Since you can scale up and down in Illustrator without ruining the image quality, it doesn't really provide any benefit to go big.

Internship is done, and it was unpaid anyway. I don't go to grad school. I just pretend I do because I hate to admit to being an undergrad twice.