Star Wars Minimalist Posters // by HarknettPrints
Happy Star Wars Day!
Kinda thinking of that post that’s saying the Pokemon in Detective Pikachu are good because they’re “cartoony” when in reality they’re pretty realistic, but keep a good balance between their cartoonishness without the creepy hyperrealistic renderings we’re used to seeing out of edgelord artists. Ironically, the people who did this movie took a lot of cues from an artist on Deviantart who did hyperrealistic-looking Pokemon.
I dunno, these look pretty realistic to me. The key is they render the cartoony elements (like Majikarp’s eyes and the shape of his fins) pretty accurately so it doesn’t just look like a rat hauling a weird fish, you can tell that’s a Pikachu and a Majikarp.
They also did a good job keeping most of the cute Pokemon looking fairly cute,
although you can still get moments where Aipom and Jigglypuff appear legitimately creepy and threatening when angered.
Then there are Pokemon who are odd-looking because they were always meant to appear odd-looking
And the ‘scary’ Pokemon actually look like dangerous, powerful monsters!
What I like about these designs is that they’ve got a good balance of traits that make them instantly recognizable enough that any Pokemon fan can name them at a glance, but given just enough nuance and realistic elements that presumably wouldn’t render very well in a cartoon. (For example, the little hairs on the inner part of Jigglypuff’s ears, Pikachu’s fluffy fur, and Charizard’s rough, dinosaur-like scales).
You can tell the people behind the design choices are really passionate about Pokemon and wanted to create characters you could easily suspend your disbelief to accept and also fully enjoy with the original ‘flavor’ of Pokemon as a long-time fan.
And anyway I just wanted to talk about how cool that all was.
Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill behind the scenes on Star Wars
Blessed images
Try to keep up.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Does sharky have a Valentine's day date this year?
wondering what the likelihood of being shanked would be if one were to yell “fuck the pats!!!!” during the parade
The ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Theme Song on Marimba by percussionist Aaron DeWayne.
the transition to the underground theme I am sobbing profusely
NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.
God I wish Vincent van Gogh was alive to see this
That sentiment is so sweet and pure.
“...and the American way”
This piece by Harebrained Schemes art director Mike McCain is so gorgeous and I love it and if you want a print of it, you can buy it here.
100% of proceeds go to the ACLU.
*slams reblog so fast*
but the real question is how did chidi get so ripped? bench pressing humanities’ collective sins and moral failures???
he went to the gym but couldn’t decide which exercise machine to use so he used all of them
I will forever look up to Miss Piggy
YOU GUYS THIS IS BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME
Jahe at the beach yesterday
paddington scribble.