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20 IMG Archtypes

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A terra cotta bunny, a playboy centerfold and a Mandril. What do these things have in common you ask? If your answer was the cast list to the greatest YouTube video of all time you’d be wrong (that would be cool though). The correct answer is that these are all images used and re-used in the testing process of creating digital imagery. The folks over the unfortunately named Art Fag City have put together a post of 20 CG Image Archetypes for your browsing pleasure. Lots of good history and links here. Take a look.

[LINK] (http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/07/28/img-mgmt-20-archetypes/) to the original post (marginally NSFW because it has a naked teapot in it)

Thanks to Azathoth for the link

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 3:08 pm and is filed under 3d, compositing, techniques, vfx, visual effects. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

6 Responses to “20 IMG Archtypes”

  1. Xavier Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 9:44 am

    What the heck!? Where’s Marcie?

  2. Hugh Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Marcie was never really an image processing image, though…. More a colour test image.

  3. Nyarlathotep Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    For the analog equivalent of this stuff check the awesome “Girl Head” collection at the end credits of “Grindhouse” These heads (usually Kodak) were 60’s girls in colorful usually psychedelic garb sometimes with a Kodak or Macbeth chip chart under them used for Printer and Optical Printer colour timing. They could often be found on the heads of rolls of processed film from the lab. And yes you got Asian babes at Fuji lab. That Azathoth guy rules…..

  4. Xavier Says:
    August 21st, 2008 at 6:12 am

    Hugh,

    That’s splitting hairs… I’ve seen cineon scans of Marcie being used to test 3D lookup tables. Isn’t 3D LUT software processing the image?

    Anyhow, lots of “china girls” (including Marcie on the bottom row) here:

    http://www.juliebuck.com/portfolio/photos/girlsonfilm.htm

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    November 12th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

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    November 12th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

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