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Why you should never believe anything you see or read in a magazine: Photoshop Disasters.
Must be weird to be an artwork person. To start with the truth and then intentionally work backwards and create garbage. It must be like having a friend who is a pathological liar — you don’t necessarily come up with the lies, but you’re the one that has to support and maintain them. Soul crushing!
I wonder what their goal is? Is it to become the person who supervises, cracking the whip and yelling about deadlines? I guess so. But I have a feeling that by the time you’ve gotten there, you’re so dead inside that you automatically perpetuate the cycle.
So I’m reading Harry Potter right now. Finally, yes!
In my mind I’m picturing the characters differently from the movies. A friend of mine mentioned that she sees the characters in a sorta Claymation style, so the movies don’t do it for her.
I think that’s really cool. There’s a distinct problem facing kids these days: Pre-fabricated characters.
When we were kids we’d make up characters. Build new things out of Legos. Draw things and people that never existed before.
But we just missed being part of the “branded” generation — where cartoon characters arrive pre-packaged with their own pre-written stories and histories. The Transformers, GI Joe, those marketing cartoons in the 80s were the beginning of those.
I think the existence of pre-fab characters are a crutch on a person’s imagination. Instead of writing fiction they write fan-fiction. It’s the same problem with memes: Instead of developing an individual wit, a person regurgitates. It’s not healthy.
Coming back to the Photoshop thing: Idealized Photoshopped female beauty, pre-fabricated characters — since the media is so powerful in our society, it has crowned a default, generic image that everyone’s supposed to Photoshop towards. This is pretty silly for a society that claims to prize individuality.
I often say I like weird looking people. I totally do. I don’t like hot women — I like distinctive looking women. Uniqueness, unique stories.
Photoshopping everything towards a fake norm just creates computer generated monsters.
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When I read, I definitely don’t see characters as they are presented in the movies or illustrations. In fact, they never have detailed faces or other visual details. They have emotions attached to them, but no detailed facial expressions. I might see someone as a person wearing a brown coat and a hat, but I don’t necessarily see the face, the wrinkles of the fabric, and all that details. In a way, they are just representations and I don’t have the brain power or am just not that much of a visual person to render everything out in real time in my mind.