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.įirst of all, always cut the hole a little bit larger than the disk requires.
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