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All right I this movie I'm going to run you down Wacom tablets. It's the most essential thing to ZBrush. Not really. I mean, you can use a mouse but you're hand's going to hurt and awful lot if you use a mouse. We professional artists use Wacom Tablets. They are the greatest assets in the world. You'll see a great improvement in your sculpting ability with it. So, at Wacom dot com you'll hear this tranquil music and let's go into the Americas. So it is handled worldwide, and you can get your Wacom Tablet here, you know, you can get it - another place that I get it for the classroom is Academic Superstore dot com. Here you can't physically buy the Wacom tablet, but you can see an online retail store, national retail here. So, they do have their resellers listed. Now. What to buy? Okay, because if we go into the Intuos level, you'll see their special edition and you'll see that they actual come in many, many, many sizes, and this is what I thought when I first bought ZBrush. I'm going to buy the Chevrolet, the big beastly 12 by 19 board. Why? Because it was big. You know, I'm a guy, I want, you know, big huge hunking stuff hanging up on my desk, and I can always second it to be a TV tray if I wanted to, I could eat off of it - no. Don't ever do that. A 12 by 19 would be a bad purchase with ZBrush. It's so big. It's absolutely huge and by the time I actually get sculpting on my itty-bitty little creature and going up to the menu all the time in this big huge 12 by 19 format, it feels like my wrist is going to fall off at the end of the day. So, that was year one of using ZBrush with a 12 by 19, and now it sits over in the corner, it makes a nice accessory to look at and warn people about. Now, what I use is actually a 6 by 8 and a 4 by 6. So, a 6 by 8 at home and a 4 by 6 at work, reason being 4 by 6 at work is because it is very small and it doesn't take up a whole lot of room on my desk, and I'm a very messy guy when it comes to that. So, do they function the same? Yes. Absolutely. In fact, you do not see any kind of performance issues at all with the smaller ones, in fact, they're better. I can sculpt out something really quick and really management a lot fastedr on a 6 by 8 or 4 by 6 than I can by a 12 by 19, any day of the week. So, that being said and done, those are what I recommend. Intel III definitely, 6 by 8, 4 by 6, depending on your taste. Want something smaller, 4 by 6. Okay. Now, a lot of hype about the pens. Don't fall for it with ZBrush. This pen in this picture actually right now is the one that works well. There are about six other pens that are actually out in development, including an inking pen, an airbrush, a 360 pen Ñ all useless. Okay, so, just know that. Now, they're not useless to the rest of my workflow because in Corel Painter, man, can I use a 360 brush like none other. Now there are other forms of the Intuos III or Wacom Tablet, so let's go back, and here's the bamboo series. And you can see, wow, the price is a lot better, huh? Seventy-nine dollars. Here's the good and the bad, of course, I always tell both: this tablet works really good in ZBrush. I had a couple of students bring me this and you know, I tried it out for about 3 days and it worked well, but when I hopped on over to Photoshop because I like using Photoshop and ZBrush together, I had a really hard time with this concept that I only had 512 levels of pressure. Usually 1024 is you know, the human hand, just about. If it goes any further than that, well, you know, that's something new that's going to pop out, but if you're doing it and you see 512 levels of pressure on these things? That's pretty low. Works good in ZBrush, doesn't work very well in any other program, though, however. And of course, Cintique, yeah. These are so nice. Twenty-four hundred dollars, usually, and I have yet to play with one. So, I will not hype them up or anything else, or tell you the good and bad about the, but they are amazing, I could imagine. All right. That's it for this movie, I just want to tell you this about the Wacom Tablets, just get one. You'll get one, you'll have it forever, and it's under warranty for a very long time, I've actually had very bad mishaps happen with the students in my lab, send it in, bam. I get a new Wacom Tablet. So, they are very good about supporting their product. So, word of warning. If you get it on eBay, when you get it on eBay you may not get that warranty. All right, on with the next movie.