Ted sent around a great link to the Vicoria and Albert's new online Leonardo collection, where they have taken some pains to aniamted Leonaro's sketches. The results are fabulous.



‘The animations have been made using various techniques: a combination of traditional drawn animations and computer-generated animations. The biggest task was to bring those two together, and try as far as possible to emulate the drawings in Leonardo’s sketchbooks.

‘In some ways Leonardo made it easy for us, in other ways not, because of the great complexity of his vision, and the graphic complexity of his drawings. It’s been quite a task to capture this complexity in animations, without changing it in such a way that they are no longer Leonardo’s drawings animated but our drawings. There’s some compromise there, but as far as possible the results come directly from material contained in Leonardo’s sketchbooks.’"

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1384_leonardo/animated_illustrations/

(The V&A logo was designed by Alan Fletcher, who recently passed away.)

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