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[Spehss _]

It's cages all the way down.

[EnigmaticHat]

I stumbled blindly into /r/onetruegod today.

The Cage also gazes into you.

(also there are probably a lot of people on the internet pissed that that name got taken, by THAT no less)

[Bohandas]

I stumbled blindly into /r/onetruegod today.

The Cage also gazes into you.

(also there are probably a lot of people on the internet pissed that that name got taken, by THAT no less)

Yes. It should've been BOB Dobbs.

[hops]

You guys are misspelling Morgan Freeman.

[Jopax]

Mr. Conceptart Conceptart

He's exploded on FB since yesterday it seems, and rightfully so. It might not be too funny for you folks but he's doing a rather awesome satire of a good chunk of the industry now. Right down to overuse of photobashing, chromatic abberation and boxheaded exosuit soldiers. It's freaking glorious, and best of all, he's actually gotten me thinking about some of my approaches to designing gruff soldier dudes.

[KingofstarrySkies]

You guys are misspelling Morgan Freeman.

f a c t

[Calidovi]

Mr. Conceptart Conceptart

He's exploded on FB since yesterday it seems, and rightfully so. It might not be too funny for you folks but he's doing a rather awesome satire of a good chunk of the industry now. Right down to overuse of photobashing, chromatic abberation and boxheaded exosuit soldiers. It's freaking glorious, and best of all, he's actually gotten me thinking about some of my approaches to designing gruff soldier dudes.

Alright, what does he need on his box head?

LEDs!
Skulls!
Numbers!
Glass panes!

[Fniff]

On the same subject, it is really hard to get a straight answer on what photobashing is.

In short, it's piecing together photos and then tracing them so they make one cohesive piece. I can recognize it now that I see the symptoms. It seems handy for when you're starting out or you need to make concept art on a deadline, but I can see why people dislike it.

[Jopax]

Photobashing is a technique like any other tbh, no different than say traditional collage for the most part. What some people seem to be getting pissy about is one of two things. It's either the "It's new and therefore it sucks/isn't art/something else" which is a bullshit argument beacuse everything was new at one point, just beacuse a medium doesn't have the same age as another doesn't mean it isn't a valid medium. Or it's the "It requires no skill and cheapens the whole art world because anyone can do it" which is also bullshit because it does take skill and knowledge in order to make it work, just like any other medium, the only difference is that in this case it's much easier to trick a layperson into not seeing the faults so to speak. It's also bad in a number of ways if you're a beginner because it tends to shoehorn your designs and limit your options severly, as well as looking awful if not integrated into the image properly, which is why you never see folks just bash stuff together without painting heavily over it afterwards.

[Flying Dice]

Not the post itself, but rather the top comment in the context of the post. It's pure gold.

[TD1]

I don't get it?

[Djohaal]

Not the post itself, but rather the top comment in the context of the post. It's pure gold.

That comment was the smartest, funniest shit out of imgur in a while. 

[BlitzDungeoneer]

I don't get it?

Same here.

[Flying Dice]

I don't get it?

Same here.

Man, I know Dune isn't exactly a new publication any more, but damn.

Spoiler: The joke. (click to show/hide)

Initial image: Sandworm and Fremen from Dune.

Image caption: A spoof of the original line-turned-meme, "He who controls the spice controls the universe,"; "spice", melange, was (very very long story made very very short) a vital tool for the guild of astronavigators who made FTL travel possible, and was only found on Arrakis, a byproduct of the life cycle of the sandworms. In this case, it references white girls and pumpkin spice drinks at Starbucks. The "white girls" part is important.

The comment: It references the books. Sandworms hunted by vibration. While walking across the deserts of Arrakis, the only way to avoid drawing attention to yourself was to walk without rhythm, varying your steps to have no pattern at all, aping the natural movements of sand. So what the comment was saying was "White girls don't have rhythm," as part of a literate and clever joke.

[Calidovi]

I don't get it?

Same here.

Man, I know Dune isn't exactly a new publication any more, but damn.

Spoiler: The joke. (click to show/hide)

Initial image: Sandworm and Fremen from Dune.

Image caption: A spoof of the original line-turned-meme, "He who controls the spice controls the universe,"; "spice", melange, was (very very long story made very very short) a vital tool for the guild of astronavigators who made FTL travel possible, and was only found on Arrakis, a byproduct of the life cycle of the sandworms. In this case, it references white girls and pumpkin spice drinks at Starbucks. The "white girls" part is important.

The comment: It references the books. Sandworms hunted by vibration. While walking across the deserts of Arrakis, the only way to avoid drawing attention to yourself was to walk without rhythm, varying your steps to have no pattern at all, aping the natural movements of sand. So what the comment was saying was "White girls don't have rhythm," as part of a literate and clever joke.

Are you trying to impose your cultural knowledge on us?

Because I'm perfectly fine with watching my Chinese cartoons, thank you very much.