I saw some fanart of Boc the Seamster and I thought "that's not what Boc looks like"



then I thought, "wait... IS that what Boc looks like? "
and I looked up some more
and people always draw him... weirdly weirdly. like weird in a weird way. it's never weird in the same way twice




and I realized I don't know what Boc looks like, and that this extends to when I am currently looking at him



seriously, what does he look like?
is his face white? dark with a light snout? dark with a pink snout? does he have a short protruding snout like lucario, or it is long and downward sloping like a opossum? does his nose have a little black puppy tip or no? are his eyes black? yellow? how wide is his mouth, is it a weird little tiny mouth or is it wide like a dog's? does he have a mass of disfiguring lumpy scars on the side of his face or doesn't he? does he have needle teeth, or rodent teeth? IS HE WEARING PANTS? why do I feel like I can't give a definite yes or no answer to "is this character wearing pants"?!

then I realized, pretty much every screenshot and video of Elden Ring has this quality
they somehow made an entire open world 3D video game impressionistic. Elden Ring always looks like a suggestion of itself. I hadn't thought much about its art direction, but that's actually an insane accomplishment. how do you make a 3D model that doesn't look like a specific shape?

i've been reading Interview With Das Vampire and in my head, Lestat looks like Astarion, so he's this cool sexy guy leading Louis but kinda being bipolar about it


i have been a GOOD BOY all week so i looked up some scenes i've already read because I remember the movie being good and Louis was mm-mm perfect, but then lestat came in and i forgot he was played by BITCHASS TOM CRUISE god DAMMIT is it the mandela effect that he was played by astarion















anyway i'm saying i can relate

Quote from: Slurpee on Today at 02:03:46 AM

IS HE WEARING PANTS?

my vote is neaurr 😏

the picture I quoted is pretty cool, you can kind of see in the furry part of his arms that there's this texture that looks like a field of dots/brushstrokes. the dots don't look attached to the arm, but you're always looking at the arm through the dots. hair is kind of like that but it's just usually attached to people

but yeah the other textures do look more like 'painting' than like necessarily low-res realism. naturally the shading is still 3d computed because that's how it's done and that's what we expect, but I bet it would be brazy if shading could also be applied less literally