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Re: Funky stuff (Was: Max's Motorhome)
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Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:39:40 GMT
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Perhaps obfuscation.
-Wes
In lugnet.build, Mike Clemens writes:
> In lugnet.build, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> [...]
> > p.s. What I want to know is what the props for step #4 is called. Karim • made
> > a note that ILM model makers would add tons of little but meaningless details
> > to all their space ships, bashing hundreds of automobile and rocket models to
> > add finishing touches to, say, a Star Destroyer. Is there a word for this?
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> Clutterfication? :-) I remember seeing something (years ago) on TV that • talked
> about ILM: a model-maker was being interviewed, and demonstrated how they had
> attached bits from battleships and such to the outside of the models. Up • close,
> you could see what he was talking about -- you could see the parts distinctly,
> but from even a slight distance, they all sort of blended together into a
> technical-looking mismash.
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> This reminds me of the sculptures of Louise Nevelson:
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> http://www.google.com/search?q=Louise+Nevelson
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> She took ordinary objects, painted them, and arranged them into works that (by
> nature of their arrangement) changed how you saw those objects.
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> - Mike
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| (...) Or maybe just "camouflage," but it's not really disguising something IMHO: more like adding small details for a larger effect. Obfuscation (to me) would be adding bits to a model that make people go "and what the heck is THAT for?" :-) - Mike (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Funky stuff (Was: Max's Motorhome)
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| In lugnet.build, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: [...] (...) Clutterfication? :-) I remember seeing something (years ago) on TV that talked about ILM: a model-maker was being interviewed, and demonstrated how they had attached bits from battleships and (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.build)
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