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Wacom and Animation

For animators, a pen represents the most natural way to express creative concepts and combines the advantages of a completely digital workflow with a natural pen-on-paper sensation for creating animations faster and with greater creative control. Animators can develop characters, sketch extreme poses, create fluid movements, ink details, and color frames faster than ever by working directly with a pen.

Working with a pen gives you the ability to create the distinctive lines that define your unique characters using the pressure-sensitive control of brushes, pencils, and markers directly on each frame of your work. Since all of the conceptual and production work involved in creating an animation can be performed so easily, animators can say "goodbye" to their old scanners and expensive tracing paper forever.

The 3D modeling or rendering forms the foundation of computer-generated special effects in today's animations, films, and other visual media, and like animators, 3D artists also rely heavily on Wacom pen tablets and interactive pen displays.
 
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Recommended Products: Wacom Cintiq 21UX
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Recommended Products: Wacom Intuos3

Imagine modeling your 3D object with a pressure-sensitive chisel. Carve and shape 3D objects quickly and easily by using the pen's pressure sensitivity to control depth. The pen also takes creating texture to a whole new level with direct application or enhanced creation in imaging applications.

 
 
A few software highlights:
· Alias Maya™ can recognise the pen's pressure via the integrated Artisan engine - by painting replacement maps on a 3D model you are effectively modeling with pressure.

· Maxon Bodypaint 3D™ supports the Intuos3's pen pressure in order to let you paint directly on 3D models with varying opacity or brush sizes.

· The pressure-sensitive brush tool in Macromedia Flash™ enables you to create natural-looking drawings that can be animated.

· Adobe AfterEffects™ has a complete brush engine included that allows you to paint simple strokes with varying opacity or width, controlled by the pen's pressure. Or make seamless clone effects with the pressure-sensitive Clone Tool (version 6.0 and higher).
 
For more software specific features, please visit the Tablet Enhanced Software List.
 
 
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