What's more, they produced the apps from the ground-up, using all original IP and content, including the drawings, characters, animations, and even the music.
Additional stimuli, which were incidental to the current study, included orthographic stimuli consisting of 16 black line-drawing characters on a white background and 16 audio files of spoken English words.
She added, "On the basis of the style and execution of the paintings and drawings, the character and the content of the letters, recipes and diary pages, I can tell you that they are fake".
The genesis for the episode were drawings that character designer and storyboard revisionist Natasha Allegri posted onto the internet during her free time.
The Greek-born artist Konstantin Kakanias is known for his drawings of eccentric characters, the most enduring of whom is a big-haired, beak-nosed, fashion-crazed woman-of-a-certain-age named Mrs. Tependris.
If you can draw manga style, character drawings are very popular.
His sketches of shoes are extraordinary: not inanimate line-drawings but character portraits, sensual and suggestive.
He mixes and matches their features, superimposes drawings of characters on one another, adds raw splotches of color to his coolly composed lines and flat tones.
But much of The Simpsons' brilliance is down to the extent to which they managed to build such a rich world, with so many fully-fleshed (for drawings) secondary characters.
"Miles would shoot me drawings and characters and the locations and we would kind of spend a long time talking about exactly what level of detail was going to be in there," Shef said.
