Animation desk for sale professional#

The second photo shows what I referred to as a 'scene stacker' (a shelf unit with multiple levels for holding separate scene folders) next to the artist's desk. It's all about trying to create a comfortable work space.

You can see an indication of the side shelf unit in the foreground and on the other side of the animator's table you can see a folding table which creates more space to stack work, have a place for the phone, coffee cup, or whatever. I think the first photo shows why it's nice to get one with a larger table top if possible, so that there is plenty of room for model sheets and/or exposure sheet. The attached images are from a production I worked on recently that was mostly outfitted with the Cartoon Colour Co. After a while you get used to where it's at and you don't even have to think about it : just reach down and under, sharpen, and resume drawing. ) Some people actually use rubber bands to strap on their pencil sharpener to one of the side legs of the drawing table, so it's under the desk top surface, then they can just reach under to sharpen their pencil. (again this could be done with cardboard and duct tape. The pencil sharpener can rest on the top of the side shelf unit or mounted to the top of drawing table with a small wood extension that makes a sort of platform for the pencil sharpner to rest on. the important thing is that any shelf unit needs to have shelves big enough to hold at least 12 field size animation paper or ideally be able to hold 16 field paper).

Animation desk for sale professional#

The side unit can be a specially made 'scene stacker' like they have in professional animation studios or any sort of side unit 'tabouret' like they sell at art supply stores for holding supplies (though those can tend to be expensive.any similar low profile shelf unit from Target would do. Also useful would be a small folding table to stack completed scenes on. or a similar table one should have a side unit with shelves for holding paper and supplies.

When using one of the wooden drafting tables from Cartoon Colour Co. Just one question- where do you put the rest of the drawings and the pencil sharpener? Do you have a smaller table or shelves next to the drafting table? I used to hang the sharpener on the righthand side of the lightbox and have the exposure sheet on the other side. The drafting table turned light box sounds like a great idea. Love the upright angle you have on the photo! Pull out your jigsaw (it's the best tool for the job) and get busy. You now have the line you need to cut on. Drag the pencil around the drawing board surface, using the nailed end of the cardboard as the pivot point. Measure out from the nail to the radius of the circle (1/2 the diameter), and poke a pencil through at this point. Take a nail and nail one end of the cardboard strip to the board where you want the center of your hole to be. To mark a perfect circle on the board to cut from, cut a strip of cardboard that's a little over half the diameter of the circle size. There is more than enough overlap on any good quality disk to accomodate the extra hole space. Cutting the hole about 1/8' larger than the disk requires will provide an opening that won't grab your disk as you spin. The reason the disk will bind or catch is because the hole in the desk is too close to the size of the disk. I've made literally dozens of animation desks out of drawing tables, and it's really not that hard to get it right, if you know a few tricks.ДЇirst of all, always cut the hole a little bit larger than the disk requires.