yellow pikmin are my favorite
they would love that
people still watch south park? where was that one really good post that basically decried everything wrong with the show and the creative process from like a year ago again?
Here’s the post.
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?
omf i never thought i'd find posts about alex colville on tumblr, but! he's a local artist where i'm from & i work at a library/archives and have processed a lot of documents related to his art. just wanted to give my two cents!
my impression is that colville did see the world as an unsettling place and a lot of his work was fueled by this general ~malaise?? but in a lot of cases, he was trying to express particular fears or traumas. for instance, this painting (horse and train) was apparently inspired by a really tragic experience his wife had:
iirc she was in a horrible automobile crash, as the car she was in collided with a train. i find it genuinely horrifying to look at, knowing the context, but a lot of colville's work is like that? idk he just seems to capture the feeling you get in nightmares where everything is treacle-ish and slow and inevitable.
natalie's ghost in s3 shows up not even to keep being gay to misty and lottie but specifically to continue bullying jeff <3333 like she's also gay while she's there but that's not the reason. dead natalie haunts the furniture store to drive away customers for no reason other than to be a hater and because she's bored <33
#gotta get back that $50000 somehow via @teabookgremlin literally GOTTA GET THAT 50 GRAND BACK SOMEHOW. natalie has unfinished business on this plane and it's called jeff owes her a car
These picture generating prompters have no shame…..
i wish all ai prompters a very go fuck yourselves
they should make astolfo canonically and unambiguously a trans woman. just to see what happens
^ me shocked that normal people don’t know ben drowned lore
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that Ben drowned.
you cannot begin to imagine what happened to ben
Mineral Avatar - Character Design Challenge by selected artists: Atiporn PK, Marine Saillard, Anne Marmion, Eloïse Fournier, Sytze Brommersma
they should invent a phrase as evocative as im going to kill myself that isnt about killing yourself
legit probably the best handling of dysphoria ive seen among like bigger well known trans characters, both pop up shop fits lining up with the interview is so fucking good god
Ship dynamics :-)
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no thats. thats literally the homestuck quadrant system
notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat
What? What ?? What ???
WHAT THE FUCK IS HOMESTUCK
notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat
At this point I'm starting to think it's just an internet ARG where people collectively make shit up to fuck with us
hey notajerusalemcricket, i need you to understand that at one point tumblr DID actually fake a whole children's television show using the Squiddles from homestuck so... the opposite of your reblog has already happened
notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat
hm ?
Homestuck is the demonic ghost Haunting the old decrepit House of Tumblr, and new tumblrites are the unsuspecting buyers who thought the house was "quaint" and "full of charm" and never questioned why it was dirt cheap
there has never been lesbianism quite like this before.