Disney Cars Lenticulars

David — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:28:20 +0000

Disney Cars Lenticular - what's available and how's it's done

Disney's Lenticular Cars

The Lenticular Series adds another level of personalty and fun to already amazing collection of Disney Diecast Cars . The new Disney Cars animated sensation continues with the Cars Character Cars Assortment featuring character vehicles with changing lenticular eyes that really bring the characters to life! These 1:55 scale die-cast cars are big on personality and detail. There are currently 2 releases of Disney Cars Lenticulars referred as Series 1 & 2 offering different and attractive designs.

Lenticular Printing

The Cars Character With Lenticular Eyes use the Lenticular Printing Technology.
Lenticular printing is a technology in which a lenticular lens is used to produce images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles. The lenticular printing include Disney Cars that showed flip and animation effects such as winking eyes, and modern airport advertising graphics that change their message depending on the viewing angle. This technology was created in the 1940s but has evolved in recent years to show more motion and increased depth. Originally used mostly in novelty items, lenticular prints are now being used as a marketing tool to show products in motion.

How does Lenticular Printing work?

Images are interlaced on the substrate.
This process takes a batch of images and prints alternating strips of each image on the back of a transparent plastic sheet. The plastic sheet has a series of curved ridges. Each curved ridge is a lenticule. When light passes through the plastic sheet, it is reflected from smooth white paper under the plastic sheet. The end result is that a single eye or camera looking at the print sees a single whole image, but an eye or camera with a different angle of view will see a different image.

To learn more about Lenticular Printing : Lenticular Printing In Production (Youtube Video)

Disney Cars Toys » Lanticular Printing

Disney Cars Lenticulars

Disney Cars Lenticular - what's available and how's it's done

Disney's Lenticular Cars

Lenticular Printing

How does Lenticular Printing work?