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I've done almost nothing (to be honest, I was expecting a more subtle irony...) and generally I don't take anything as offense or as personal, but I don't think one must be Michelangelo to see the world with critical eyes.
I'm just trying to speak about concepts, not things. A new figure release is a thing, all the stuff behind are just ideas, concepts, philosophy or whatever you want to call it.
Releasing, as the century revolution, a figure set with over 400 parts is talent or business ? Volstad is a great artist, and as Lancer said (if I understand correctly) the DML industry is producing figures based on the Volstad's plates.
Now my question is, who is the talented artist, Volstad or the technology used to produce the figures based on his work ? The same figure, based on the same plate, with a maximum of 5 pieces and sculpted by some of well known artists out there will be the same or not ? Will such figure be judged as a product of the same (equivalent) talent ?
I think the talent of an artist is not the same talent of an artisan, the first creates, the second reproduces. As Volstad creates the plate, Shrek is not coming out of a computer by magic. One or more artists have the idea, draws the character and next a lot of technicals (and technology) is used to convert it in a movie.
Don't know, but splitting a piece into three or four, as DML does, just requires technology, not talent. Maybe I'm wrong, but what I do not understand is why truly pieces of art coming from names like Laruccia, Borin, Konnov and so on, sometime are the target of an harsh criticism just because there are 5 buttons instead of 4 on the jacket (without speaking of scabbards...) while an industrial production like the one of DML is taken as the next generation figure because the pieces are splitted and splitted and splitted...
Luca
I'm just trying to speak about concepts, not things. A new figure release is a thing, all the stuff behind are just ideas, concepts, philosophy or whatever you want to call it.
Releasing, as the century revolution, a figure set with over 400 parts is talent or business ? Volstad is a great artist, and as Lancer said (if I understand correctly) the DML industry is producing figures based on the Volstad's plates.
Now my question is, who is the talented artist, Volstad or the technology used to produce the figures based on his work ? The same figure, based on the same plate, with a maximum of 5 pieces and sculpted by some of well known artists out there will be the same or not ? Will such figure be judged as a product of the same (equivalent) talent ?
I think the talent of an artist is not the same talent of an artisan, the first creates, the second reproduces. As Volstad creates the plate, Shrek is not coming out of a computer by magic. One or more artists have the idea, draws the character and next a lot of technicals (and technology) is used to convert it in a movie.
Don't know, but splitting a piece into three or four, as DML does, just requires technology, not talent. Maybe I'm wrong, but what I do not understand is why truly pieces of art coming from names like Laruccia, Borin, Konnov and so on, sometime are the target of an harsh criticism just because there are 5 buttons instead of 4 on the jacket (without speaking of scabbards...) while an industrial production like the one of DML is taken as the next generation figure because the pieces are splitted and splitted and splitted...
Luca
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Luca I see your point
I am curious to know [if] an actual master is made for the original figure, and who is the sculptor? There may be a good many of unsung sculptors who never go recognized from IMP kits.
Not only IMP kits, but some resin kits as well, for example Verlinden, Julian Hullis who did a great number of masters human and equine.
I am curious to know [if] an actual master is made for the original figure, and who is the sculptor? There may be a good many of unsung sculptors who never go recognized from IMP kits.
Not only IMP kits, but some resin kits as well, for example Verlinden, Julian Hullis who did a great number of masters human and equine.
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