Stephen Worth has posted an excellent piece on his Animation Archive blog that uses the exquisite illustration of W. Lee Hankey to make a point. CG artists and animators are just plain lazy! Worth rails against the use of “excessive detail”, colors that are “straight out of the tube” and “stock poses or actions” using specific paintings from the Golden Age of illustration to prove his point. The examples he picks alone are well worth a look but the author also brings up a great point. Today’s digital artists tend to be woefully under-educated in art and film history and spend way too much time replicating what they see on CG movies and Forums and not spending any time analyzing what makes a great work of art great. Thanks Stephen, this article should be required reading for the CG set.
LINK to Theory: CGI Animators Should THINK Like Artists
