ray caesar
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I love Ray Caesar's work too and have done since I started being an illustrator. Him, Storm Thorgerson and Kitt Williams were my main inspirations when I started out.
A friend of mine purchased a framed Ray Caesar print for a really huge amount of money at an art fair a couple of years ago. It was a really beautifully executed print, although it was a "giclée" which personally I don't approve of as a means of selling art at all.
But aside from that it was really deep and rich and detailed and beautiful, and in a beautiful frame too, but there was one really startling flaw that for me seemed ridiculously sloppy and ruined my appreciation of Ray Caesar entirely.
To anyone looking who didn't know the software they could enjoy the print and remain blissfully unaware of it (so I didn't say anything to my friend about it) but where the figures elbows bent it was really abundantly clear that the whole thing had been done very crudely in a Poser style application that could manage the mathermatics of the elbow joint properly at all... it was all funny creases and folds in the surface art to get around the elbow. Clearly he puts a huge amount of time and effort and talent into his work, and I just couldn't believe he'd leave this awful crunkled foldy elbow thing. It basically told me exactly how he did the piece, and its never good to know how the magic trick works.
After I saw that I started to scrutinise the piece and could pretty much see how the whole thing comes together, where he's pasted bits on and where he's filtered stuff etc.
If he hadn't fucked up the elbow the rest of it would never have unravelled before my eyes. I was bitterly disappointed by seeing it in the flesh.
Ho Hum. Never meet your heroes.
- that COULDN"T manage the mathematics of the elbow (not Could as I said there).Spookyhome
- Fucking spelling errors on QBN always TOTALLY INVERT the intended meaning. Bugs the SHIT out of me.Spookyhome
- 'Nice' would have done fine. :Dset