tastiger opened this issue on Apr 25, 2005 ยท 29 posts
momodot posted Tue, 26 April 2005 at 8:33 PM
Mayadoll. Look at her legs... what are they? Blow up dolly? What do we call it if not Anime? I don't know... just "stylized"? I wonder why it was named MayaDOLL? Don't get me wrong, Mayadoll is wonderful, and a great gift to the community, but it is a doll of some sort, a humanoid, not a human... I do not believe an artist that talented was attempting realism and failed, it is a figure based on anime... the P6 team however has left me wondering what they were thinking, I am working with an other writer on a paper and exhibition concerning the absorption of Anime aesthetic in American poplar art... I suspect the P6 team did not realized to what extent their figure was stylized (strangly only the female huh?), I think they were dealing with the disapointment in the community over Judy having a realistic body. Somehow in my years of teaching I found over and over people defeated by drawing what they "knew" when they wanted to draw what they "saw". I wonder if in making these mesh "I certainly don't know how) the artist become so entranced by form the forget to reference it to reality... I saw this time and time again with sculpture students. P4 legs attempted to reflect human anatomy albeit not deftly. Millenium knees? passible though chunky and square... Judy knees and thighs? just beautiful. But how the legs on P6 dip in at the knee rather than below it... hoestly have you seen that on an actual human? Again, this is what artists call "crit" not criticism, not complaint, just a formal analisys. I don't believe anyone OWES me a realistic figure, I am simply describing the figures I see before me. But maybe I should just shut up.