In honor of the Ides of March, my favorite Tiktok
What the fuck
This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:
- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)
- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.
- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)
- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture
- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.
- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)
- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.
What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.
But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?
Power of the press!
Iris West and Lois Lane prepare tointerrogateinterview Lex Luthor.
I went entirely too hard on this for a lil three panel gag but it’s all good because Iris and Lois look good and that’s all that matters.
…that and making Lex sweat.
now thats a game changer
[ID: Three edited screenshots with digital art drawn over them.
The first one shows the set of Game Changer from Dropout, but instead of Sam Reich, The Professor is the host behind the podium. He is grinning enthusiastically, presumably speaking to a contestant.
The second image shows the contestants’ space on the Game Changer set, where all podiums are empty except for one, where Ryan Bergara stands, looking entirely confused.
The final image shows the set of Watcher Entertainment’s Puppet History, but instead of The Professor, Sam Reich in puppet form is visible in the puppet theatre box. He has a small hat and is speaking to Brennan Lee Mulligan, who is sitting in Ryan’s usual chair, and is bent over in apparent distress, with his hands clasped in front of his face. End ID.]
In my experience, horror fans are by and large lovely people with a very healthy relationship to their genre of choice, but sometimes they fuck up and say something that in their ears sounds very affirmative of the movie of discussion and to everyone else sounds like the most sinister shit.
I mean the line that I think of first is “A kid dies in this movie.”
Which I suspect to horror fans is shorthand for “The director of this movie subverts horror tropes (wherein kids are usually immune to the monster/slasher/source of terror) to make something that is deliberately shocking. Seeing a child character die in this story is not a happy thing or a good thing, but for a horror story emphasizes that nobody is immune to the source of the terror, which makes the horror more serious and scarier.”
And to everybody else just sounds like “Oh this movie’s great! A kid dies in it!”
Happy Out Of Touch Thursday
Once in a timeline, out of touch remix plays, and we have to thank the tumblr gods it this to go on for so long
Frodo and Sam’s journey if it took place in the United States
Average trip to Florida
Source: reddit.com
So there’s this terrifying statue currently touring England called KNIFE ANGEL that’s apparently supposed to raise awareness about knife crime or something but i cannot get over how the ppl organising events around this thing have absolutely no idea what tone to go for. Like what sort of Nightvale shit is this
REPTILES!
PONY VISIT!
K N I F E A N G E L
🦇Service Mindset🦇
A look into Charles’ work life.
Don’t be rude to whoever has the midnight shift at McDonalds
Just realised I never posted this short comic I made in 2019! Some of the art is a little wonky because I had to rush this out in a couple of weeks for a zine fair I was attending. I think my digital art skills have improved a bit since then.
I’m not the first person to suggest that cats are staring at something we can’t see when they stare into space but I thought it would make a fun comic idea. This was also inspired by a picture book I read a lot as a kid- Slobcat by Paul Geraghty, which had a similar narrative style though obviously without the horror elements.
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