Tristan S. Rappさんのイラストまとめ

Reminder that Egyptian civilisation is older than the Sahara desert

For all the faults of the prequal films, Naboo stands out as an underappreciated triumph - essentially "vaguely Art Deco Constantinople in space". A great showcase of beautiful architecture and urban design, even excepting the fantastical elements https://t.co/m575U0VZMh

You can tell a lot about a person based on whether the Old Forest chapters are one of their favourite or least favourite sections of the book

With The Woman King releasing and the surrounding firestorm of controversy, I thought to do the very unwise thing and step into it, offering some suggestions for periods and events in African history that really *do* warrant film-adaptation

Comparing different designs for Minas Tirith here is interesting - look at the first painting, evidently predating the movies, the second sketch, which seems to be a transitional piece, and then an image from the eventual film. A gradual decline in "stock fantasy"-ness

It is interesting to me how many of John Howe's early paintings of Tolkien seem much more "conventionally fantasy" than both the film he eventually helped produce & the books. You have soldiers in plate armour, Medieval-esque castles, rangers that look straight out of Sherwood!

Dark and tragic, it strikes a very different tone from Tolkien's other works. There is little catharsis to be found here, but pathos in spades, beautifully evoked

In some ways, it is perhaps a tale more suited to modern pallets than his other, more conventionally heroic writings

@pankratosaur @MarkWitton @harrison_duran I have done some tries aiming at a more general paleoart - these weren't tagged with any particular artists. It's very hit or miss, and getting it to do high-resolution paintings is difficult, but they give some inkling of the current capabilities

It's still somewhat finicky of course, but it seems pretty clear to me that if you actually trained an AI specifically on paleoart, you could get some fairly remarkable results

Phonoaesthetics are funny - barbarians, cavemen and other "primitive" people in films and media often have names like Gorok, Mog, Thur, Bogur, which is obviously due to the connotations of those names with barbarism. Even to me, a Cro-Magnon with a French-sounding name seems odd