You may have a friend or family member who has the proper tools to do this. If you have the proper tools to make a precision cut 16 1/2" hole in the table top then you could cut the hole yourself, or hire a local woodworker who has the proper tools to make the cut for you. These tables are available from or other art suppliers. The Alvin Pavilion wooden drafting table, offered in a range of sizes from 24x36 to 31x42, is a good basic drawing table.
If you have the space this is really the best option for a traditional animation set up. You can adjust the table to whatever angle is best for you. A drafting table can be adjusted in both height and the angle of the tabletop for the maximum in drawing comfort. What you would give up in terms of portability and compactness you would gain in flexibility and comfort.
#2d animation desk portable
Traditional Drafting Table adapted to Animation Table:Ī step-up from a portable table-top animation desk would be to have a hole cut into a standard wooden drafting table so you can mount an animation disc on it, with a backlight unit mounted underneath. Lightfoot Animation sells a similar disc for $129.00 + shipping. ( Colin Johnson sells this white plexiglass disc with peg bar for $85.00 + $18.00 shipping. 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 :Ī 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).Ī 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.
#2d animation desk professional
While it is possible to purchase or build a large professional studio-style desk such as this example of a Disney Studio desk.
#2d animation desk 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.
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