Baby Bam-Bam

To make a theme out of things, I went and found this image of Bam-bam from here

Here's my first go-round.

As with the first Pebbles attempt I noticed:

• I make the cheeks larger than they are in the original
• I make the features (eyes, nose etc) larger than in the original

So. Overlay with Photoshop and back to fix the image.

Much better. See for yourself!

Dance, drawings, dance!

This very cool toy created by motion designer Masayuki Kido allows you to draw a two-dimensional character and then it "animates" it for you! First seen at Drawn.ca. Apparently, I didn't understand that you had to draw within the person shaped frame... which is why the character has a square head and only stumps for hands!

I'm having problems embedding the video in IE (Firefox worked like a charm), so here's a direct link to mine.

Key Frame Animation is Canadian

Did you know that? Neither did I.

To find out more about Canadian Inventions, check out the Wikipedia entry based on the CBC TV special called "The Greatest Canadian Invention. "

Here is the list of inventions, in the order in which they were ranked on the show:

1. Light Bulb
2. Insulin
3. Telephone
4. Five-pin bowling
5. Wonderbra
6. Pacemaker
7. Robertson screw
8. Zipper
9. Electric Wheelchair
10. Poutine
11. Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment
12. Java programming language
13. Bloody Caesar
14. Canadarm
15. Standard Time
16. Electron Microscope
17. Ski-Doo
18. BlackBerry
19. Radio Voice Transmission
20. Birch-Bark Canoe
21. Basketball
22. Retractable Beer Carton Handle
23. UV Degradable Plastics
24. Instant Replay
25. Goalie mask
26. Marquis Wheat
27. Pablum
28. Lacrosse
29. Electric Oven
30. Fog horn
31. Walkie-Talkie
32. Alkaline battery
33. Paint roller
34. Electronic Music Synthesizer
35. Weevac 6
36. Green Garbage Bag
37. Snowblower
38. Self-Propelled Combine Harvester
39. Instant Mashed Potatoes
40. Marine Screw Propeller
41. Explosives Vapour Detector
42. Plexiglas
43. Key Frame Animation
44. CPR-Mannequin: “Actar 911”
45. G-Suit
46. Ardox Spiral Nail
47. Automatic Lubricating Cup
48. Crash-Position Indicator
49. Caulking gun
50. Separable Baggage Check

That's one impressive list!