#HOMEMADE ANIMATION LIGHT BOX PDF#
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#HOMEMADE ANIMATION LIGHT BOX PORTABLE#

The disc mounted in a portable lightbox or in a drafting table is better. These sort of set ups with a simple lightbox or the lightpad on a stand will work, but the disadvantage is it doesn't fully rotate, so you can't turn your drawing to the most comfortable angle to draw from like you can with an animation disc. Get a stand for the lightpad to adjust it to a comfortable angle for drawing: Or you can use one of these thin LED Lightpads with a Stand. Add a thin tape-down Acme peg bar from for $7.00 and you'll have a functional animation lightbox. Dick Blick currently sells the 12' x 18' model for about $80.00 (compared to list price of $129.00).

Some online art dealers such as Dick Blick Art have these Artograph LightTracer II lightboxes for less, so keep your eyes open. Lightfoot Animation sells the Artograph LightTracer II 12 Field lightbox (12' x 18') with an Acme peg bar pre-installed for about $119.00 The Lightfoot portable lightboxes are much more expensive, but they do have a smaller 'footprint' (only 24' x 24' compared to 36' x 24' on the Colin Johnson table and 30' x 24' for the ChromaColour table), so if space is an issue you might want to consider one of the compact Lightfoot Easel Design Animation lightboxes :ДЄ more compact, less expensive option would be to use a simple lightbox with a fixed animation pegbar (no rotating disc). may make this more expensive than the Colin Johnson Desk. Depending on where you live in the world the shipping from the U.K. The ChromaColour portable animation desk is a little more lightweight and folds down flatter for storage, if that matters to you. This desk is very good value for the money as he includes the white plexiglass animation disc, and a backlight unit along with the desk itself. (these desks are wonderful, but take up a lot of space and are very heavy to move).ДЄ good, portable animation desk is the one made by Colin Johnson of Vancouver, BC, available through his web site Most of use don't have the space or the funds to purchase such a large desk for our home studio.

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While it is possible to purchase or build a large professional studio-style desk such as this example of a Disney Studio desk.

#HOMEMADE ANIMATION LIGHT BOX PDF#

There is also a PDF booklet that I have prepared called 'Animation Student's Guide to Animation Desks' which may be downloaded by clicking on the link. You can peruse that album for ideas on how you might set up your own workspace. There are many different configurations of desks, some of which I have shown in the web album Animation Desks gallery in the sidebar links. One of the basic items you need to animate is an animation desk or a lightbox. I'll talk more about these items in the posts below, but in the meantime check out the Traditional Animation Materials List and these two downloadable/printable PDF resource booklets: ) a digital video camera or HD webcam mounted on a down-shooter (tripod or ideally a copy stand) to capture your drawings via video feed into TVPaint or Digicel Flipbook. The Epson WF-7720 is a good scanner that has both a Flatbed scanner and an Automatic Document Feeder for auto scan.ДЁ a. ДЁ.) a scanner for scanning your animation drawings into TVPaint, Digicel Flipbook, or Toon Boom Harmony. With Toon Boom Harmony you may only use a scanner. With TVPaint and Digicel Flipbook you can either scan your drawings or use an HD webcam for video capture of your drawings. Or Digicel Flipbook or Toon Boom Harmony.

Pre-printed Exposure Sheets from Lightfoot Animation.Д§.) Animation frame capture software. Д¦.) Exposure Sheets (free, printable X-sheet templates from ). Recommended graphite pencils include: Tombow Mono and Palomino Blackwing 602.ДҐ.) Erasers: Soft kneaded eraser (grey), andВ 'Magic Eraser' (white). Various brands of Graphite pencils, HB, B, 2B. Ingram Bond erases better, lasts longer, holds up to repeated flipping, the surface is better for drawing, it scans better.Д¤.) Pencils, various. Ingram Bond paper is more expensive, but you'll notice the difference between this and the cheap photocopier-grade paper. Ingram Bond animation paper from Lightfoot or Cartoon Supplies is recommended. Lightfoot Animation or Cartoon Supplies have pre-punched animation paper (see links in sidebar). Lightfoot Animation has them or you can get a less expensive one from at this link:ДЈ.) ACME punched animation paper. Get a thin, metal tape-down peg bar if possible because those are the most versatile. (get the disc if you can, it's better.)Дў.) Extra ACME peg bar for scanning or video testing your drawings. We'll go into more detail in other posts, but what are the basics you need to get started with traditional hand-drawn animation ?ДЎ.) Animation desk with animation disc, or a lightbox with pegbar.

Homemade animation light box