Question: What is an Easter Egg?
Answer: An 'easter egg' is a term describing a programming artifact that has since expanded to include many venues, including televised and online animation. It refers to the practice of hiding some valuable tidbit of information within the code, which can only be uncovered if you know where to look...or by lucky accident, much as with actual traditional egg hunts on Easter holidays.
In animation, an Easter egg might be something in a scene background that only a clever viewer might notice, a hidden scene on a DVD - or it might be a subtle clickable object in a Flash animation that opens a hidden scene, triggers a secret function, or does any number of things. Whatever it is, an Easter Egg is a hidden treat that can be as much fun to hide in your animations as it can be for viewers to find.
