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How to Draw a Realistic Eye (Time Lapse)

How to Draw a Realistic Eye (Time Lapse)

This photo is actually a perfect pencil drawing Vatican Sistine Chapel gets new lighting and AC system 29 October 2014Last updated at 22:54 ET <div class="warning"><img class="holding" src=" alt="Sistine Chapel ceiling " /><p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.</strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.</p></div> The Sistine Chapel is now illuminated with more than 7,000 LED lights The Vatican has unveiled a high-tech lighting and air-conditioning system to better preserve and display the famous frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. The new air-conditioning aims to reduce the damage to the frescoes from dust, and from the breath, sweat and heat of some six million annual visitors. The new LED lighting saves energy and highlights neglected features. The chapel's renowned sights include a ceiling by Michelangelo, depicting a bearded God giving life to Adam. The new illumination system comprises 7,000 LED lights. Some of these lights aim to show off the deep blue background of another Michelangelo fresco, The Last Judgement.

Animation software used by Studio Ghibli is going open source Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source. Italian studio Digital Video made a deal with Japanese media company Dwango, enabling Dwango to produce and release a free version of the tool, called OpenToonz, for the international animation community. Making Toonz a world standard for 2D animation "The contract with Dwango," said Digital Video managing director Claudio Mattei, "which offers the Toonz open source platform to the animation community, has enabled Digital Video to realize one of its strategies, i.e. to make of Toonz a world standard for 2D animation." Toonz first saw release in 1993, and is used to turn hand-drawn art into vector graphics. The most recent version can turn a single drawing into a complete animated sequence. Toonz was also used by Rough Draft Studios for Futurama Toonz is also used by Rough Draft Studios, the group behind Futurama and The Simpsons Movie.

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