tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166148481262196781.post5640263668198938335..comments2023-11-08T21:14:14.091-08:00Comments on Jon Stewart: Minor Project UpdateJon Stewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313205857565854925noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166148481262196781.post-48273671993199243852009-11-04T05:23:03.118-08:002009-11-04T05:23:03.118-08:00Thanks Alan. Yes the face is an issue currently. B...Thanks Alan. Yes the face is an issue currently. But i've set the face to one side for now in an attempt to work on her torso more. It really wasn't up to the standard that I wanted, and so I've been sculpting and retopologizing that area. Thanks for your comment and as soon as I move onto the face I shall be referring to it. I heard you had the Flu, I hope all is well now!Jon Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10313205857565854925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166148481262196781.post-49454552895243973322009-11-03T11:30:50.854-08:002009-11-03T11:30:50.854-08:00Ok Jon...Its starting to look good. Lots of progre...Ok Jon...Its starting to look good. Lots of progress and Maya wizardry going on. Great to see.<br /><br />However, I do think the characters face needs some more work. The cheeks are very thin (deformed / pushed inwards) and the lips too squashed. Its give the character a slight 'Duck Bill' look. Fatten out the lower cheeks toward the mouth / nostrils and then soften the lips. Subtle but important changes.Alan Postingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09282179748734196674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166148481262196781.post-71726473082037108082009-10-27T16:00:51.244-07:002009-10-27T16:00:51.244-07:00Hi Jonny,
Okay - a bit later than I promised, but...Hi Jonny,<br /><br />Okay - a bit later than I promised, but hey, I'm a hunted man and these first years have my back to the wall :-)<br /><br />So - to recap, something issues/theoretical ideas that I would suggest underpin the subject area of your dissertation.<br /><br />1) If you're arguing that addiction to games is in fact a desire to enter simulated worlds (and stay there!), then you're talking about people living in 'image worlds or virtual worlds' - Jean Baudrillard wrote about Simulation and Simulacra - wherein he suggested that we, in fact, already live in a 'copy world' - to put it more prosaically, you might argue that advertising etc. makes us buy things, not on the strength of their actual materiality, but because of their 'image' - or the world they simulate; we want to live in a simulation; Baudrillard argues that reality has been replaced by a simulation of it anyway. The notion of games is perhaps a symptom of this or maybe it is this idea made more visible; the original work is a difficult one, so I suggest you begin by reading various definitions of the term until you are happy that you have a handle on it.<br /><br />Hyperreality is a related idea and it describes the kind of fictional 'larger than life' phenomena characteristic of image-saturated societies; again, it is broadly associated with escapism - or the human need to be fictionalised, perhaps?<br /><br />Anyway, I hope that if you do a bit of reading around these subjects, little alarm bells might begin to go off in your head... here's hoping!tutorphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166148481262196781.post-43698095198151427372009-10-20T15:52:26.118-07:002009-10-20T15:52:26.118-07:00Junk in her trunk! Looking very good man!Junk in her trunk! Looking very good man!Liam Scarlinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869663285109884562noreply@blogger.com