Category Archives: Wacom Tablet

Lyricmation: The White Stripes – We’re Going to be Friends

By Josh | Published: December 13, 2007

Here’s the first results of my little experiment. the shakiness is due to the screen recording software tracking my mouse movement. So this is kinda like if you just held a pen in the middle of a page and someone moved the paper around to make the letters . I’ll see about turing [...]

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Lyricmation test 1

By Josh | Published: December 12, 2007

So, this is a new experiment I’m trying out. I want to sync lettering to music lyrics in real-time. I slowed down the music to play at 15% the normal rate and lettered (poorly) in Illustrator along with the words. I then sped up the lettering animation to match the rate of the song. The [...]

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Alpha 06

By Josh | Published: November 4, 2007

This fat, experimental alphabet was done in Illustrator using my Wacom tablet. I created a calligraphic brush with these settings: Angle 30º, Roundness 50% and Diameter 300pt with Pressure Variation set to 300 pt. I wanted to see what a brush with a huge range of pressure sensitivity would do. Here you can see the [...]

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Ghoulish Glyphs 04: Halloween haiku

By Josh | Published: October 26, 2007

Here’s a quick and dirty all caps font I created entirely in Illustrator with a flat pen brush using my Wacom Bamboo. I then took it into FontLab for spacing and font generation. Back In illustrator, I set the alphabet and wrote a Halloweenie haiku to go with it.

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Bamboo alphabet

By Josh | Published: September 30, 2007

First Alphabet drawn with my new Wacom Bamboo. Created entirely in Photoshop using a custom brush with the following settings; size 60 px, 138° angle, 32% roundness, 10% spacing with shape dynamics set to pen pressure.

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Wacom Bamboo

By Josh | Published: September 30, 2007

I just got a new Wacom Bamboo and it is everything I could ask for in a tablet. The first thing you will notice about the Bamboo is how small it is. At only 7.88×7.36in. and 0.3in. thick, it is much more manageable than my previous 6×8 tablet. I always wanted to use a [...]

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