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Another Do-It-Yourself Animation Desk project
For those of you with the right tools and the do-it-yourself motivation here is another project to inspire you to build your own animation desk . Click on this link to see details: How We Built My...
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Inexpensive Large Format Scanner for Animation
If you've ever priced out large format (11" x 17" tabloid size) scanners you know that they are generally very expensive (starting at $1,200 for basic 11" x 17" flatbed scanner , ranging up to $4,000...
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Image Capture for Animation - Scanning
Video capture is typically used to make fast frame captures for pencil tests. Video has the advantage of speed .However, when image quality needs to be very high (for instance when scanning drawings...
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Animation Frame Capture - Video Capture
I cover this topic in detail in the downloadable PDF booklet "Image Capture Techniques For Hand-Drawn Animation" which you can get by clicking on the link.--------At the pencil test stage one option...
View ArticleAnimation Books
What books should you get as you study animation ?At the Academy of Art University Online we have several books which are required texts for many of the traditional animation classes. Check your...
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More on Build-It-Yourself-Animation Desk
I saw a question posted on an animation forum about the type of hardware needed to make an adjustable light table, such as the one shown in the DIY Plans posted above. The hardware is available from...
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Purchasing an Animation Disc
As I mentioned earlier a standard flat, rectangular or square lightbox with an Acme peg bar attached will do as the bare-minimum for animating, but it is best to have a lightbox or drawing table with a...
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Do-It-Yourself- Animation Desk
As I mentioned in the previous post you may purchase a standard wooden drafting table and cut a 16 1/2" hole in it to fit a standard animation disc.This is probably the easiest "do-it-yourself"...
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Purchasing an Animation Desk or Lightbox
One of the basic items you need to animate is an animation desk or a lightbox.There are many different configurations of desks , some of which I have shown in the web album Animation Desks gallery in...
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Basic equipment for hand-drawn animation
We'll go into more detail in other posts, but what are the basics you need to get started with traditional hand-drawn animation ?1.) Animation desk with animation disc , or a lightbox with pegbar. (get...
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A new Animation Pencil Test capture station: SIMPLICITY CAM 5e HD DOCUMENT...
As seen on the TVPaint Community User Forum : This relatively new image capture station , the Simplicity Cam 5e HD Document Scanner by Recordex-USA --This unit is compatible with both Windows and Mac...
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Handroo Animation Table
This stylish portable animation table is made in France by Handroo.Download the brochure at this link: Handroo Brochure They are working on securing a U.S. distributor. In the meantime you may...
View ArticleHand-Drawn Animation Equipment and Supplies
Click on the links below to read the Topics covered : 1.)Basic Equipment for Hand-Drawn Animation2.)Purchasing an Animation Desk or Lightbox2.a) Purchasing an Animation Disc (options)3.) Do-It-Yourself...
View ArticleWhy this blog ? What will you find here ?
This page is a sub-section of my blog for online animation students Academy of Art Animation Notes.Here you will find sources and suggestions for purchasing or building traditional animation equipment....
View ArticleTwo useful apps for Traditional Animation
For scanning animation drawings for import into animation apps such as TVPaint Animation or ToonBoom Animate Pro / Harmony, or Digicel Flipbook you should seriously consider VueScan scanning...
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PART 2 : Getting Started with Traditional Animation -- ON INBETWEENING: A...
PART 2 : Getting Started with Traditional Animation -- ON INBETWEENING: A FOUNDATIONAL SKILL If you have the book by Tony White "Animation From Pencils to Pixels" read his material on "2D Animation...
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Getting Started with Traditional Animation : Basic Techniques PART 1
Whether you are using using traditional pencil on paper with an animation disc (recommended) or a Wacom tablet drawing directly into TVPaint Animation , you should read the material posted below in...
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Pencil Testing with your iPhone or Android Smartphone - a faster alternative...
A faster alternative to scanning is to capture your animation drawings with your iPhone or Android Smartphone. Modern phone cameras are quite high resolution , so the images captured can be very sharp....
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