Also known as the writing desk, it is a professional tool for making cartoons and animations. It mainly consists of a light box covered with ground glass or acrylic board. Most of the early copying tables were inlaid with a piece of glass on the wooden desktop, with candles and oil lamps as the main light sources below. Later, someone changed the light source into an incandescent lamp, which was the prototype of the early copying table.
The real copy desk appeared in the 1950s, and the wooden box-shaped copy desk began to appear. Compared with the early copy desk, the practicality was greatly improved.
Introduction:
Copying desk Copying desk, also called writing desk, is a professional tool for making cartoons and animations. It mainly consists of a light box covered with ground glass or acrylic board. When in use, you can clearly see the picture on the bottom drawing through the superposition of multiple drawings, and you can also copy or modify the picture on the first paper.
You can use an animator to draw the decomposed action (middle picture), a cartoonist can describe the draft as the original draft, and it is also convenient to use some paper.
When you put several overlapping animation papers on frosted glass or acrylic board and turn on the light box switch, the light will be reflected to the animation paper through the frosted glass or acrylic board. In this way, we can clearly see through the image lines on multiple overlapping animation papers and draw the decomposition action between them (that is, animation). Cartoonists can also easily describe the draft as a formal draft, so it is also one of the necessary tools for professional cartoonists.