Hardware envy!!

[memnus]

Linked from QC: a tablet/screen that I'm severely drooling over. I was just looking at tablet PCs today and lamenting the fact that not a single one of them has a decent graphics card, ergo none of them would be good for flying Maya. But this, this would be so much hotness, with the 8800 GTX driving the graphics, an interface in which I could actually do honest-to-god detail work, and a full-sized monitor next door for close-ups. Blarglerearghotttness. Ok, so optimally that'd be my third monitor, but so far I've only got two video outs.

So if you buy me a tablet, I'll make a model of you. Any takers? Anyone?

What if I throw in a pizza?

Um, I suppose if I starting doing modeling for profit as well as fun I'd actually want to have legal copies of Maya and Photoshop. Or get off my ass and actually learn Blender, and stop caring about how much GIMP sucks.

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Comments

[merrickkite.livejournal.com]

Oh, everyone has that kind of pocket money... right? *crickets chirping... which is odd for this time of year...*

[memnus.livejournal.com]

Everyone but me, apparently.

[derakon.livejournal.com]

I use Blender quite a bit, and while it definitely has a steep learning curve, I find it quite usable now for working on my projects. I know there are people out there who absolutely hate it, but I don't know how long they spent learning to use it.

If you do give it a shot, I strongly recommend logging onto the IRC channel #blender on irc.freenode.net, which is very kind to newbies. Sadly you need to register your nick with nickserv before they'll let you in, for some unfathomable reason.