what kind of artwork can you do with a pen and tablet?

3d scanner tablet image

Koolaid!

i was on worldofwarcraft.com the other day and was looking at the fan art work, and i have some amazing pictures to put on there but the problem is i dont have a Scanner and would love to draw them into my computer.
befor i buy a pen and tablet i would like to know if you can make pictures like on the tablet with a special program. if so what kind of program would be best (and not very expensive) and what kind of tablet should i buy?

Answer
World of Warcraft.com fanart
http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/fanart/ScreenShot.html

some art can be done with pen and markers as well, then uploaded to computer, for digital art, you can use various brands of tablets, and several drawing and painting programs,

also some art can be designed in 3d programs, then repainted in other paint programs, also possible to render 3d image with game engines, and incorporate into other editors,

design illustration markers
http://www.dickblick.com/markers/design_markers/illustrationmarkers/details/

Wacom
http://www.wacom.com/intuos/
Adesso
http://www.adesso.com/products.asp?categoryid=17

Corel Painter X
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0
portalgraphics openCanvas
http://www.portalgraphics.net/en/

Pixologic Zbrush
http://www.pixologic.com/home.php
3D Brush - Texturing of 3D Model
http://www.3d-brush.com/

Frost Engine
http://wowrl.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
Unreal Technology
http://www.unrealtechnology.com/technology.php
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How are 2D cartoons animated today?

Captain Ca

I understand how 3D images are made, they generate models and send them through animations. However, how do they do 2D cartoons? I asume they don't draw each individual frame anymore. But, backgrounds that don't move do appear to be hand-drawn in some shows. How do 2D cartoons go through animations?

Answer
Depending on the budget, deadlines, technology, experience and preference that 2D animations are made one way or another.

Small budgeted shows, destined for the weekly TV slots are mostly done on Flash these days. Characters are created from simple shapes with movable body parts (mouths, hands etc.) are pasted onto individual layers and animated individually or in concert with the other parts.

The good thing about Flash is that you can position key drawings (important, story-telling character poses of say, a hand) out and the computer will fill in the in-between drawings (all the other drawings between the key drawings to smooth out the movements) automatically. So you can position the hand at one location (a key), and then program the computer to move it to another location (another key) and it will fill in all the in-between drawings by itself (timing is done by the animator). Computers are only good at moving objects around perfectly and stretching/squashing them according to preset rules so you are limited to certain expressions. Of course, complex scenes still need to be animated by hand, but to keep the cost and the time consumed down, animators don't get to do them frequently, if at all.

You can recognize these shows by the extremely smooth movements exhibited by the characters, as well as the bold and uniformed outlines and colors throughout. Backgrounds can be painted by hand, either digitally or on papers( and then scanned into the computer), or created from bodies of static shapes and colors.

Bigger, movie-length animated films use specialized softwares, either developed in-house, or bought commercially like the Toon Boom Animation program. These, however, are almost completely hand-drawn (characters-wise), since you can only create good character animation when you have a feel of the lines and forms of the characters, a thing that is quite difficult to program on a computer.

Some studios use papers and scanners, some use graphic tablets like the Wacoms to imput drawings into their computers. Some parts of a character can be animated while others are put on a different layer and remain static.

You can recognize these films by the slight jittery outlines of the character when he/she/it moves, since each line was drawn to match up with the previous drawings', though never perfectly so, no matter how hard the animators tried. The backgrounds are usually painted by hand (either digitally or manually on papers), or in 3D models that mimic a particular style or both.

Having said all that, yes, most animated shows are still drawn by hand. Some are done on papers and scanners, some are done on computers with Wacom tablets, some combine both in the production process. 2D animation is a craft, and unless computers can draw imaginatively, animators will still have their jobs, drawing them lovingly frame by frame. I hope that helped.

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