Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Doll Face


Doll Face.
Sorta creepy, but good CGI art.
It's amazing that single amateurs can now create works like this.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Impressive.

Anonymous said...

Sorta creepy.

More like "demented." Our fallen darness is all around us lingering like a half-starved bat in a cave ready to die.

Anonymous said...

So, Eo, care to translate for us the symbolism in this, um, very creative one? ;-)

Good CGI art, but sorta creepy. There's a tone of painful desperation there, as if a Lebanese was trying to get closer and closer to democracy...

But maybe I'm just bringing everything back to me again.

Black Night,
You've got quite the talent yourself for creepy metaphors. :-)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Since you ask, I see it as a metaphor for the soul's worship of bodies.

Anonymous said...

ttl said...
Wow! Impressive.

you don't get out much do you? or are you just into weird science fiction stuff?

Anonymous said...

Anon: "you don't get out much do you? or are you just into weird science fiction stuff?"

Actually, it is the technical execution that I was most impressed about. I have done some CGI work myself and know that even with today's sophisticated tools it takes talent and a lot of work to come up with something like this. The shots flow very smoothly and naturally and the whole clip looks like real camera work.

Also, the clip uses what's known as "match moving" (matching computer graphics to video) which requires careful planning and extra work even on top of normal CGI.

As to the subject matter, no, I am not a science fiction fanatic. For me it's just one genre among others. But I think the guy has a strong idea here. He isn't just presenting his technical skills, as is often the case.

But you are right, I don't get out as much as I could. How about you?

Anonymous said...

Nice metaphor, Captain. I'm not sure I would've found it on my own.
(And it always sounds wiser when coming from an artist.)

Anonymous said to TTL...
"you don't get out much do you?"


Say, Mister X, sir, do you know of a place I could get out to where I'd see such a thing "in the flesh" (sort of)? I've looked everywhere, but to no avail!

"Creepy sci-fi"? I'm a fan of the movie The Thing. Powerful movie, and even made into an excellent atmospheric video game a few years ago.
If you rent the DVD, don't forget to watch the extras. Some of their anecdotes with the special effects are quite funny.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Some of the greatest minds of the world "don't get out much". And some of the smallest do nothing but go out.

Anonymous said...

this thing is full of darkness and a crying plea of desperation of some kind of outer void.
it's troubling to watch and is creepy. our world on its knees to demonic forces and strange dimensions.

Anonymous said...

gods of this world,
Yours is also an interesting metaphor.

Considering this film is, in a way, abstract art, it essentially mirrors the feelings and emotions that every beholder puts into it. So I'd be very surprised if there were only one interpretation. :-)

Still, it feels definitely tormented.

laurie said...

I can't get the video but the face reminds me of some 12 year old faces at the Middle School where I worked. The sullenness goes away eventually. They used to like to use the word "demented", that's so weird. Everything was demented. Basically behind the doll mask they were all just kids, at their stage of experimentation in this dream. I had some good laughs with them actually, the fear didn't stay. Nothing is demented or demonic or holy but the mind that makes it so.

Anonymous said...

Nothing is demented or demonic or holy but the mind that makes it so.

Not so. The orginal movie Physco potrayed a demented lunatic and was considered a horror flick and was full of darkness period.
The exorcist with linda blair was demonic in nature.
To think otherwise is being naive. These things of evil exist as does holy movies.
Doll Face is a fine example of the human heart in all it's depravity and warped sense of metal and mental madness which is fixated on our fallen world of television of tormented and demented relestless souls reaching into a vast array of gray oblivion.

Anonymous said...

Still, it feels definitely tormented.

agreed. 100 percent pascal.

Anonymous said...

"Physco"? Never heard of that film.
Perhaps because it was a box-office fiasco?

Anonymous said...

it's as clear as day, I'm a man and even I get it. Don't you see the symbolism of how the media portrays idea beauty that is unattainable to women today. Every time the girl reaches the level shown on the TV, it changes and moves even further away. This continues until she crashes to the ground broken. This is going on all around the world causing young women to feel less of themselves and their psyche is left shattered.

Anonymous said...

Wow. Now this is probably the best symbolic analysis that can be done in brief.
Thanks for the contribution, Anon guy. Please sign next time so that we may praise your name. :-)