Blog feeds for Gamers and Developers in the GarageGames community. http://www.garagegames.com/ 2008-10-11T15:57:06+00:00 text/html 2008-03-27T17:44:21+00:00 James Brad Barnette http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/2480/14511 A lot of you artist may know about this I have used it for a while but the latest release has some really great features for creating complete textures sets from a single photo.<br><br><br>go check out the video to see it in action.<br><br><a href='http://www.crazybump.com' target=_blank>www.crazybump.com</a><br><br>This is a must for all artist working on TGEA based projects!<br><br>Oh yeah BTW It's free! text/html 2007-08-15T00:56:59+00:00 James Brad Barnette http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/2480/13406 I'm not one for pedaling things but I had to let people know about this. As you blender and ZBrush guys know Digital Sculpting is the way of the future for Video games. It allows our characters to have so much realism and detail. The one thing about this is Tablets are freaking expensive! I have been a Wacom Tablet user for well over a decade. While they are nice tablets, they are very expensive. Well I was getting ready to start on an instructional video and I wanted to get a second tablet. &quot;I own 1 Wacom 9x12&quot; Well I had read about this tablet called the PenSketch 9x12 from Genius in a tablet shootout in 3D World magazine. It bested all of the Wacom tablets in a shootout. And the price $199 <i>&quot;at the time of the article, keep reading it gets way better!&quot;</i> well I didn't think much of that till I need a second tablet and the cheapest I could find another 9x12 Wacom was for $449. While cheaper than I originally paid for mine it is still pretty steep. Well I decided to check this place that I buy a lot of other stuff <i>&quot;one of the largest internet sellers out there&quot;</i> and what did I find? A PenSketch 9x12 for $129. I showed a couple of the other artist in the office and I think like 5 of us ordered them.<br><br>Well I got mine in last week and let me say I was skeptical but wow. This is actually better than my Wacom Intuos pad!!!! The sensitivity is Awesome!<br><br><br>Here if you have been looking to get a tablet give it a shot <a href='http://www.directron.com/31100006101.html' target=_blank>Click Here</a><br><br>I hope that this helps some of you guys out. I know I like mine better than my trusty ol Wacom.<br>The only feature that I can find that is missing is that the drive doesn't seem to give you per application settings like the Wacom. But honestly I haven't missed it. The pressure sensitivity is so much better than my Wacom I haven't needed to have different profiles.