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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?

american mourning veils throughout time, 1850s - 1950s

No doesn't exist digitally anymore. It's been replaced by Not Now or Maybe Later or Snooze Tumblr Live for the next 7 days or Sign In To Continue or We'll show you less like this (lie) or Schedule your restart otherwise we force it in 10 minutes. And I hate it all with the heat of the sun.

Childhood Gaming List: 5/? Pokémon Yellow Version “A world of dreams and adventures with Pokémon awaits! Let’s go!”

I love everything about every single one of these

can't believe that pompeii by bastille is over ten years old now. but I guess if you close your eyes it does almost feel like nothing changed at all

my little house on a hill in the rainy, foggy pacific northwest winter

being completely and utterly normal about the bombshell that just dropped

who let her say that

some people pointed out to me she committed fish microagression, I breezed past that completely due to her on-air declaration she’s here to eat and fuck

I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability

going to therapy y’all want something

Women hate how little it takes to make us men happy

women

we gotta bring back ._. so you guys can stop arguing with every weird cunt in your notes. dont give people who say weird and unkind things to you the time of day just ._. and move on