Animation Supplies?
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Animation Supplies?
I’ve been looking for a source for animation products, such as lightboxes, animation paper, pegbars, etc. I found one company called lightfootltd.com that sells animation supplies. Do you know of any others so I can compare prices?
Are Chromacolour still operating in the UK - they were the biggest suppliers I knew of.
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Last edited by Rhoel on Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:59 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Animation Supplies?
Ok, they're not an animation supplies company, but I definitely recommend checking these guys out if your in the market for a light box.kori wrote:I’ve been looking for a source for animation products, such as lightboxes, animation paper, pegbars, etc. I found one company called lightfootltd.com that sells animation supplies. Do you know of any others so I can compare prices?
http://www.luminousfilm.com/
They sell LED lighting panels that work spectacularly well as a light-box, except they are only about 5mm thick. In fact, I have used mine on top of Wacom tablet, so I can trace directly onto my computer. I've also hooked up a 12V dimmer to it so I can adjust the brightness, which is useful if you want to adjust how many frames show through.
I'm a little lost here. I own a Wacom tablet. Just how do you use a lighting panel with a Wacom tablet to put drawings into your computer?http://www.luminousfilm.com/
They sell LED lighting panels that work spectacularly well as a light-box, except they are only about 5mm thick. In fact, I have used mine on top of Wacom tablet, so I can trace directly onto my computer. I've also hooked up a 12V dimmer to it so I can adjust the brightness, which is useful if you want to adjust how many frames show through.
Normally you would use a peg bar with a light box or wacom tablet - the peg bar will keep the drawing register from drawing to drawing.kori wrote:I'm a little lost here. I own a Wacom tablet. Just how do you use a lighting panel with a Wacom tablet to put drawings into your computer?
Maybe I missed something here so I have to ask, why are you using a wacom to trace? Many people will use a light box, punched paper and a peg-bar to rough out the key poses, then use the peg-bar and scanner to import the drawings into ASP. From there, the vectors are drawn over the rough.
A large Wacom can trace drawings into the computer, just use double sided tape to stick the peg bar to the wacom (placed outside the trace area).
But light boxes and pegs are the best way of roughing out fast or difficult action; if you are using light blue pencil to start with, its a great way of doing something hard like a head turn. Once you have the thing working in blue, you can then "ink" in with graphite pencil.
Rhoel
for supplies
http://cartooncolour.com/
http://www.cartoonsupplies.com/
http://www.paperpeople.co.uk/
http://www.schopman.be/
http://www.animationsupplies.net/index.php
as to the LED/EL panel thing, I think Rudiger is pointing out that their light box is thin enough to use on a tablet and still have the Wacom sense the pen? Though I'd be a little dubious about line quality with that much distance from the tablet (and also wonder what possible reason there is to not just tape the traced thing straight to the tablet).
http://cartooncolour.com/
http://www.cartoonsupplies.com/
http://www.paperpeople.co.uk/
http://www.schopman.be/
http://www.animationsupplies.net/index.php
as to the LED/EL panel thing, I think Rudiger is pointing out that their light box is thin enough to use on a tablet and still have the Wacom sense the pen? Though I'd be a little dubious about line quality with that much distance from the tablet (and also wonder what possible reason there is to not just tape the traced thing straight to the tablet).
Man . . . I have a lot to learnRhoel wrote:Normally you would use a peg bar with a light box or wacom tablet - the peg bar will keep the drawing register from drawing to drawing.kori wrote:I'm a little lost here. I own a Wacom tablet. Just how do you use a lighting panel with a Wacom tablet to put drawings into your computer?
Maybe I missed something here so I have to ask, why are you using a wacom to trace? Many people will use a light box, punched paper and a peg-bar to rough out the key poses, then use the peg-bar and scanner to import the drawings into ASP. From there, the vectors are drawn over the rough.
A large Wacom can trace drawings into the computer, just use double sided tape to stick the peg bar to the wacom (placed outside the trace area).
But light boxes and pegs are the best way of roughing out fast or difficult action; if you are using light blue pencil to start with, its a great way of doing something hard like a head turn. Once you have the thing working in blue, you can then "ink" in with graphite pencil.
Rhoel
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