Finally!!! I waited and waited and waaaaited but is finally on my hands. MUAHAHAHAHA!
A quick review for the geeks :)
It is amazing! There is nothing like it as far I'm concern. The 21' is better but way out of my financial capability (In Brazil we pay 5 times the price that you can pay in America).
The main differences between both could be:
On the 21' you can draw rotating your elbow. On the 12' you can just draw rotating your wrist. That can make it seems too small but it isn't. It is the same size as those tablet pcs you see nowadays but with the best wacom technology available in it. Additionally I think that, with the 21' you get tired faster, waving your arm all around all the time, and with he 12' you can ultimately do things with less movements. BUT, of course, you have way more resolution and magnification with the 21'.... is like you can work the details seeing the hole thing at the same time. But is a matter of getting use to it, and if you never used the bigger one, you will not fill the difference.
On the 21' you can see what you are drawing, what is on your working area and the menus at the same time. On the 12' you will probably hide everything else to see just your drawing, or use a second monitor to put everything else. Frankly I found the second monitor thing a good idea but I didn't got used to it. First because I do not always use the cintiq when I sit on the computer, so there is no need to keep it on all the time. And second because I'm already used to hide my menus with keyboard shortcuts. So, when I'm using it, I prefer to use the shortcuts to show the menus on the same monitor them to keep looking to both monitors. Because of this I end up using the 'clone monitors' feature and not the 'dual view' feature.
I think that hiding the menus with shortcuts is not really a problem, it's actually a good idea since you never know where you gonna work next and what equipment they have. Shortcuts are something that you really want to keep the same, no matter your pipeline, cause is kind of hard to relearn them all the time.
And that's it, I can't say anything really bad about the 12WX Cintiq. It is DaBomb :)
I believe that you can make your work at least 100% better + 100% faster = 200% easier... And the more you use it, better and faster you will be.
That's another project that I'm working on right now. This one I gonna do alone and it is gonna be a very short film. I will try to begin production during july, if everything run smoothly until then...
