• Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Has always irked me that strategic maps of outer space are almost always 2D in movies and TV.

  • Nailbar@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    I love the no-railings trope. I imagine they have the weapon controls on one of the terminals in the ditch.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    22 hours ago

    McQuarrie was second only to Syd Mead in terms of sci fi concept art work. He also worked almost exclusively in gouache, which imho is the most unforgiving medium to paint in.

    We wouldn’t have Star Wars without McQuarrie. Amazing artist.

    • Fafa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      Gouache can be lifted of the canvas because it has some chalk like texture. But it depends on the paper quality, how often you could do that.

      Nonetheless this is still a lot more difficult than digital.

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, I’m not saying gouache isn’t at least somewhat malleable, its just that ultimately it’s opaque watercolor.

        You can’t layer it in the same way you can oil or acrylic.

        It doesn’t have the translucence of oil, so getting a transparency effect is far more difficult.

        It doesn’t dry nearly as quickly as acrylic unless of course you’re not watering it down at all.

        And yeah, editing or making major changes to the work requires you to basically wash off the old gouache which depending on if you’re working on paper or canvas can be varying levels of pain.

        I love gouache paintings when used masterfully, as basically when done right it usually creates a look that is unique to it IMHO. It’s like pastels, watercolors, and acrylics got together in one medium and gave the middle finger to oil and said, “yeah, we can do something you can’t.”

        Not that I hate oil, but gouache is the only medium I think rivals it in its range of potential artistic effects (i.e. lighting and atmosphere). Oil is obviously the far more commonly used medium, so it’s just nice when I see gouache done well. That said, it takes a lot longer to master gouache than oil, and gouache is so much more expensive than oil, so its understandable that most artists wouldn’t choose to try to master gouache.

        And yeah, no modern artist would touch the physical mediums anymore as sadly it’s just too expensive to paint in anything other than pixels these days, not to mention it takes far more time to master.

        I’m not shitting on digital work, honestly I’m a fan of a lot of digital art as well, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t bemoan the fact that something is lost with the fewer physical medium artworks, specifically paintings, these days.

        Anyways, sorry for going on. Obviously I have a background in this stuff and so am very opinionated about it.