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by mnb123 » 16 Apr 2012, 11:42
specs:
Thinkpad Tablet, NVIDIA Tegra 250 1 GHz, 1024 MB, LPDDR2, NVIDIA GeForce ULP (Tegra 2), 10.1 inch 16:10, 1280x800 pixel, IPS-Panel mit Corning Gorilla Glas, capacitive 6-finger multitouch panel, glossy: yes; n-trig stylus; Android 3.1, update to ics 4.0 coming around may
in short the list off apps i use: quill,sketchbook pro, lecturenotes, drawing pad. and for anim stickdraw.
in long:
i have a thinkpad tablet, it has a pressure sensitive (n-trig) stylus, which makes it unique among the 10.1 size tablets, it has its problems, but it has a fair price at least. among others i bought it to do sketches and line-test quality animations. So far i use quill for b/w sketches (it is vector-based, bit too simple, but very enjoyable), lecturenotes for more advanced sketching (now this app is pressure sensitive too), as it has layers and is pixel-based, among its many features. sketchbook pro would be theoretically the best for sketching, yet it is not as responsive as the above two apps and has no pen-only mode so palm-resting always messes up the lines, hopefully they will do something with this in a new version, but who knows when it comes. so far i did not find other apps that are pressure sensitive, so i don't use others. drawing pad has nice brushes though, so with pressure sensitivity in a future update it could be good.
for animations so far there is not much to use, it is a great disappointment. stickdraw starts to become quite usable, if they add pressure sensitvity it can be good for basic needs, for line-tests definitely. flipu has a nice interface, yet it has no onionskin, so it's useless so far.
all-in-all i would be delighted to see an anim app that is like a stripped-down tvpaint with less configurability, yet with more than one layer (eg 2, one for lines, one for coloring), with some of the more important brushes and an export to the tvp format. a flush-color feature that uses the lines of one layer but does the coloring on another. and onion-skin for pref/next frame.
with ics4 on the way and the campaign of samsung note there might be better pressure sensitive apps on the way. i'm surprised that on the ipad there are some better drawing apps although it does not have a press. sens. stylus. eg. i miss artrage from the android, but still i miss a tvpaint-equivalent the most (now with ubuntu installable on android it may be possible, but it will surely be too slow to use and won't support press. sens.).
