Animation Light Box

While a student  I built this simple light box using scrap wood, plexiglass, a salvaged switchable cord, and a shallow light fixture. I would like to show others how I did it in case anyone would like to build one for themselves.

Step 1 Materials

I used 5/8" high density particle board because that's what I had and its easy to work with.  But the box can be build with other plywood's or even 2x4's if someone really wanted to. I used a router to create a lip for the plexiglass to lay flush with the table top. It would work just as well and take less time to cover the entire table with a 16" x 13" piece of plexiglass.

Comments

[structer]

This is a great help specially for us animators thanks a lot guys Ü

[bass01]

nice work love to make one of these..

[TechyGeeky]

Great instructable! I'm going to build this (sooner or later). Any suggestions on making it brighter?

[mr.jmb]

This one was actually bright enough for my needs and worked quite well. You could use higher watt bulbs or use round tubular florescent bulbs with the proper fixture of course.