flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn’t the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community
Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans,Michael Pangrazio,Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.
There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves !
Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:
exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!
SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!
It’s too beautiful. I could cry.
I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!
imagine a time where people actually were given the time, reverance, and pay to make real hands on art & it paid off by making multiple multi-generationally beloved classics raking in billions of their almighty dollar??? instead of mass marketed hollywood horse shit
Description: Tiktok from user theomasters stitching user jascoombs. The first video shows a girl with a text to speech voice saying “apparently you’re meant to look like your boyfriend’s fave disney princess.” It cuts to a nonbinary person sitting at a computer and the guy behind the camera says “Emma who’s your favorite disney princess?” Emma says “Chicken little.” The camera flips around to reveal a guy with short red hair and round glasses. He pauses for a second and then wheezes.
