Tablet

For those interested, I bought an HP TC1100 Tablet PC. It is a shame but they don't make this model anymore, since it has some nice ideas in its execution. The team developing it left the company and went to Motion Computing. I bought this one because it is a "slate" model with a detachable keyboard, and is small enough to carry around. Also, it has a dedicated graphics card rather than all that integrated nonsense.

I've already roughed out a few animation ideas in Plastic Animation Paper, which, while not perfect, has at least given me a better sense of timing out my keys. Hopefully I'll get better as I learn more about the software. From what I understand Mr. Schleif's greasePencil script will allow something very similar within Maya, the coolness of which has made him an INTERNET SUPERSTAR.

Right. Back to the scribbling of roughs!