From Gouache to Gadgets: Shopping For the Animator on Your Holiday Gift List

That's right, we animators need our own furniture. Drafting tables, stools--you name it, we want it. And none of those hard, painful wooden stools, either. If I'm going to spend hours bowed over a light table or squinting at a computer screen, I want something comfortable underneath my bottom so I don't end up with the animator's equivalent of saddlesores.

Padded drafting chairs and stools can be a nice gift if the person you're shopping for spends a lot of time at the art table. For the computer-riveted recipient, however, you may want to look for something a bit more plush; leather executive office chairs are a comfy fit, and a nice step up from the standard computer chair. And let's not forget the tables themselves; drafting tables/art desks come in a variety of sizes and styles, from the foldaway style to the traditionally tilted easel style. You can even buy them in entire sets that include lighting and chairs.