{"product_id":"artograph-art-projector-enlarge-and-trace","title":"Artograph Art Projector – Enlarge \u0026 Trace Your Animation Drawings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShips in 1–2 weeks.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ordered for you, then shipped from us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat it's for:\u003c\/strong\u003e an opaque art projector shines any drawing, photo, or printout onto a wall or a sheet of paper, bigger. You don't need a transparency. Put your drawing under it and trace the projected image. Muralists and sign painters use them. So do animators, and this is the trick that makes it worth owning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe studio secret: enlarge-and-trace in-betweens\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one was passed down to us by a working animation artist. It's how you animate something growing, zooming toward the camera, or moving in or out of depth without redrawing it from scratch every frame:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTape your paper to the wall and project your key drawing onto it. Trace it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoll the projector back a few inches. The image gets a little bigger. Tape up a fresh sheet and trace again.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepeat, moving the projector the same distance each time. Every drawing is an in-between that grows in perfect proportion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLine the sheets up on your peg bar and flip them. You've got a smooth zoom or grow cycle, and the drawings stay consistent because they all came from one original.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTip: mark the floor with tape at each projector position so you can go back and redo a single frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eNo projector? The copy-machine version\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's the same trick with a copier. Photocopy your drawing, then enlarge each new copy a little more than the last (100%, 103%, 106%...). Trace each copy onto punched animation paper on your light pad, or clean them up directly. It's slower and you're limited to the copier's sizes, but it works anywhere there's a copy machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWhich model?\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEZ Tracer:\u003c\/strong\u003e compact, with a 4\" x 4\" copy area, and it enlarges 2x to 10x. Great for character drawings and cycles.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLED Tracer:\u003c\/strong\u003e a brighter LED lamp and a larger copy area, so you can work in a lit room and with bigger artwork.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth also handle backgrounds, layouts, murals, and set painting for stop-motion sets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artograph","offers":[{"title":"EZ Tracer (4\" x 4\" copy area, 2x-10x)","offer_id":67602598986094,"sku":"ARTO-EZ-25550","price":84.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LED Tracer (brighter, bigger copy area)","offer_id":67602599018862,"sku":"ARTO-LED-25370","price":149.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/3972\/7214\/files\/ez.jpg?v=1790745612","url":"https:\/\/gainesphere.com\/products\/artograph-art-projector-enlarge-and-trace","provider":"Gainesphere","version":"1.0","type":"link"}