Sotiris wrote: โWed May 14, 2025 8:39 am
Congrats! Your setup looks great. Was the animation disc expensive?
Its about $100, but it comes from India, so shipping adds another 100. (I don't remember the exact numbers, I'm estimating here)
I have to imagine tariffs increased the costs, though I do not know what the prices were before this mess started.
But most people are going to need a lightbox to accompany it. I chose to go with the drafting table style lightbox, plus a small batch of punched paper, so all of that combined came in at around $500 when all is said and done. So yea, its not cheap, but its not like there's a lot of competition for these. I've been keeping an eye out for them for years. I did have an opportunity to buy one used to animate beavis and butthead,but it was a 12 field, which is standard for tv productions, but not for features. So I kept waiting.
But they have different configurations for different budgets. there's an acrylic disc, a "fancy acrylic disc" (which just means it has a black frame around the whole thing) and metal variants, which are the most expensive. But I don't plan on being hard on it, so acrylic is probably fine. in addition, all of these come in both 12 and 16 field.
Then there's lightboxes, you can get just the disc, no box. or have it on a table top version, so you can just place it on top of any desk you may have. or the drafting table one, which I went with because I just moved out on my own, meaning I have zero furniture, so I needed something with legs.
One disappointing thing is that the light does not work, I think because of faulty wiring. I'm not even sure if it came that way, or if its because I dropped it while assembling the whole thing. (it didn't include any directions/documentation, and I didn't have help, so it was very awkward) So for now, I just have an old cheap lightbox I placed underneath until I can figure out the problem. I
finally my Netflix subscription pays off
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