http://newpsalmanazar.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/art-and-imperfection/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:57:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://newpsalmanazar.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/art-and-imperfection/#comment-98 mfair Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:41:03 +0000 http://newpsalmanazar.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-98 My computer animation professor (also a pixar employee) told me a similar thing about having to build imperfection into the computer animation in order to give it a human quality. He hated watching The Polar Express because the movement was too perfect and looked stiff an unnatural since it was created by exactly capturing human movement. My computer animation professor (also a pixar employee) told me a similar thing about having to build imperfection into the computer animation in order to give it a human quality. He hated watching The Polar Express because the movement was too perfect and looked stiff an unnatural since it was created by exactly capturing human movement.

]]> http://newpsalmanazar.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/art-and-imperfection/#comment-92 wngl Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:54:26 +0000 http://newpsalmanazar.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-92 If you have ever read the seminal Russian SF novel We, written by Zamiatin, it is a treatise on exactly the kind of tyrannical precision mathematics can bring to society. I share your fascination with the need in computer graphics to "create" flaws in images in order to make them more palatable or realistic. The decision to go another road in Persepolis makes me want to see it all the more! If you have ever read the seminal Russian SF novel We, written by Zamiatin, it is a treatise on exactly the kind of tyrannical precision mathematics can bring to society. I share your fascination with the need in computer graphics to “create” flaws in images in order to make them more palatable or realistic. The decision to go another road in Persepolis makes me want to see it all the more!

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