CLOSEUP OF STANDARD ANIMATION TABLE
Our proprietary moving peg bars have ball bearing slides and are without play in any direction. The bars can be
removed from the table simply by removing two screws at each end of the track. The bars come out with the drive
and motor still intact and attached. The shape of the pan bar track allows multiple tracks to be stacked against one
another and provide a multi-field table. The one pictured is both twelve and sixteen field formats. When the twelve
field bars are removed, an oversize sixteen field area is exposed and a new sixteen field mask drops into the
opening left by the removal of the twelve field bars.

The custom neon back light is exceptionally bright and even across the entire field. Also clearly visable is the
pneumatically operated platen.
Other options available for any animation stand include:
• Motorized shifting lens board (provides the illusion of infinite North/South – East/West axis)
• Floating peg bars
• Door viewer
• Multi-plane tables with any of the following axis as required:
o Zoom
o North/South
o East/West
o Rotation
o Pan bars
This Animation Stand is principally designed
for the fast, long travel North/South - East/West
moves typically needed for video applications but
can easily be set up for Film cameras as well.  The
stand has five feet of zoom axis travel, three feet of
north/south travel and six feet east/west travel. All
linear axis are designed to travel at three to six feet
per second with standard stepper drives. (speed
dependent on brand of motion control system) The
standard table included with this stand is
approximately 42" by 31" and has two pan bars at
twelve field and two pan bars at sixteen field.  The
pan bars have approximately 36" of travel and are
without backlash.  
Close-Up-of-Double-n
Closeup of optional Camera Rotation
head with Motorized Follow Focus
Standard Animation Stand with 3 Axis Gimbal Table

Standard system (shown here) includes: Main column
approximately 11' 7" tall (in order to stand in a room with
a twelve foot high ceiling), our standard north/south &
east/west compound which gives approximately 48" of
east/west and 28" of north/south travel.  Also included is
a standard camera carriage, motorized follow focus
base, motorized rack over, capping shutter, a standard
lens mount and the mounting of your camera box to the
system.
Close Up Showing Gimbal Table, Pan
Bars, Platen, Neon Backlight and
North/South & East/West Compound details
The gimbal table has an
internal roll axis housed
inside a pitch/yaw axis which
is housed in an external roll
axis.  All axis on the gimbal
table are without backlash,
the rotations are infinite,
and the pitch/yaw axis is
plus or minus 90 degrees.  
There are two pan bars at
twelve field with
approximately 16 inches of
travel (± 8") on both bars,
an integral neon backlight
(12 by 16 field) and an air
operated platen
The table also includes
an integral sixteen field neon backlight
and air operated platen. The table rotates
infinitely, limited only by the wrapping of
the wires and because of the double
telescoping North/South axis, the operator
has free access to the table no mater
where it is in its range of travel.
Mechanical details of double
telescoping North/South axis and table
rotation.
ANIMATION STANDS