lightbox take 1 · Nov 29, 10:51 PM
1st attempt on a prototype for the lightbox
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the idea was to have an inset slit around the frame of the box for the acrylic sandwiched film to slide into, going in about a quarter inch. had the acrylic cut at tap plastics, clear 1/16th of an inch for the front and a foggy white 1/8th inch for the back. the prototype are just logos, small ones, while the finished ones will be scrollers averaging from 3-5 feet.
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inset routing went pretty well for the 1st try, the blade in this old metir saw was pretty dull though so it burnt through the wood. gotta get a new blade.
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glued and nailguned 3 of the pieces together, tested the acrylic, slides in pretty nicely. hinges worked pretty well, thought we’d make it easy to replace the bulbs if they ever went out
semi-finished product, still need to seal, sand, and then stain. the 2nd prototype i might try to inset the backing so i’m not exposing two different kinds of wood.
btw thanks Lord Scarlet for the entry on sixteen colors!
— acidjazz
prototype prints · Nov 29, 11:47 AM
one of the ideas i had to show this artwork correctly is to give it the same look it had back in the day, lit up. ANSI art was solely seen on CRT monitors scrolling at 80×25 column terminals. so i thought a lightbox would be a pretty close way to represent some of it.
i found a printing company local to me that will print large format in 6 color UV ink on universal back-lit film, used for rich color back-lit displays, like bus shelter ads. i had two logos printed out on them, and one canvas (just to see what it’d look like).
the smaller ones are printed on back-lit, large one on canvas. i definately did not ask for that excess border, gonna be fun cutting that off.
hard to tell but aempirei noticed i messed up on the column duplication blowing this one up for the print shop. still looks good far away, but i gotta remember to do exact multiples of the dimensions next time.
— acidjazz