http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/08/using-mathematica-to.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32637333@N00/3412863193/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg

3D printers. Slap some lacquer and gilt on it, and you’re good to go.

If Disney’s “Jungle Book” ever comes to a large screen in your area, go see it. Again(?).

Watch Shere Khan walk, just like a cat – all those drawings took so much time, the details are there. You can see all the brush strokes, the imperfections, changing with almost every frame, imparting life to the character.

It also can be seen in the Wallace and Gromit films. The scenes take so much work to create and animate, that Nick Park puts in little details that elevate the films.

There is a wonderful artist by the name of Bruce Shapiro who has been using EggBots as teaching tool for a long time. He has some amazing emu eggs were etched using a dremmel tool. Here is the link to his site.

http://www.taomc.com/educational_uses/teaching_machines/eggbot.html

Make sure to check out his pipedream and sysiphus.

However, after much surfing and dead-ends: Xerox animation, as far as I can tell, is photocopying some of the (black line) drawing (onto the cels) so that the artist can fill in the rest by hand. The new part of the Xerox process was the ability to photocopy onto clear film.

And the colour was still/only filled in by hand for that film, no?

I want to use it to create oviform stippled portraits of people with whom I disagree that can then be hurled against symbolically appropriate targets, so that I can record the event with a high-speed camera and become known as the master of egg-based political commentary.

Ironically, the reason you can see “all the brush strokes, all the imperfections” in the Jungle Book is because at the time that movie was made, Disney was implementing a radical mecanisation of their animation process: something called “Xerox animation”. This new-fangled process made it possible to cut time and expenses by letting the designers put their raw sketches directly on transparent cels, so you could do away with the entire department of people that previously used to trace the art by hand from paper onto cels.
Hence the more “textural” feel in most of the movies from that era compaired to, say Snow White or Pinnoccio.

Is the irony starting to sink in yet?

It’s my firm belief that technological advances allways allows for truly creative people to expand their creativity, whilst lowering the bar for the less creative people to express themselves too.

My favorite thing though was the plain ol’ Paas color set every year. My Dad was really obsessive about buying two kits and doubling up the color tablets in each cup; that led to the most intense colors imaginable to my kiddie mind.