Disney Sketch to 3D

This article is about technology Disney is developing for kids. It's a Coloring book with an app component where what you draw on the paper, textures onto a 3D model in real-time. A few tests with older people showed it improved people's motivation to color more. Robert W. Sumner says that it is great that new technology like this can improves people's attitude to be more creative. To make this technology, 3D Artists had to first make custom models, and then create a way for the paper to be translated to the model. There are a few problems though. Some parts of the character simply can not be seen due to angles. Therefore the computer had to analyze what colors the person is using on other parts of the character and generate what it should look like there as well. I thought this article was very interesting. I wouldn't have that much of a use for this myself, but I can see younger kids enjoying this in the future. It's great that technology is really pushing creativity these days. The later you're born, the more cool options technology will give you to make art.