https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/11099...-them-in-color
I guess Stoney Boy and his comrades will have to be colorful now
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/11099...-them-in-color
I guess Stoney Boy and his comrades will have to be colorful now
I've known about this for a bit and I hate it. It looks so tacky.
Can't view the full site without allowing tracking/cookies, but from what I can tell from the comments so far, this is referring to the horrendous colours that we've found out ancient Greek statues originally had.
It was certainly a bit of a revelation when I first learned of this. If anything, I'm glad the statues endured but the paint didn't.
May as well pretend that applies in the fantasy world of Warcraft too.
Don't think the Titans cared about paint when they created the earthen and such. We're safe.
IRL Statues: Made to look asethically pleasing
Warcraft Statues: Made to fight the enemies of the Titians
So no Titan Keepers don't need to look painted. Warcraft might take inspiration from IRL but they they don't need to copy purpose or look
Such a weird thread topic, with one thing not having any influence over the other.
That first picture is giving me TBC armor vibes lmao
WoW dinosaurs also typically aren't feathered like they should be.
From a game-story perspective, I doubt the Titans or Keepers would've bothered painting the Watchers and other stone entities they intended to reside in specific locations and generally just maintain or observe them over the eons. Knowing any kind of temporary affectations would long since erode or decay (e.g. paint, fabric-based clothes, wood, etc.), they'd probably just give them their stone and/or metallic forms and carve whatever affectations they wanted them to have straight into their primary substance. No point in painting an automaton whose purpose is to stand guard over a location for millennia at a stretch, especially when there's no one else around to observe and/or appreciate the artwork.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
For all those that refer to what the Titans would have done, this thread refers to the Watchers' and Keepers' inspiration of Greek statues.
True.
But, it mostly applies to the smaller Saurid, and maybe Pterodactyl Dinosaurs. Less so the bigger T-rex and Raptors (which aren'y veloci-sized). At least from what i've seen of Prehistoric Planet.
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OP seems to have forgotten that the earthen / titanforged were literally mass-produced via forges, not handcrafted to be works of art
The Watchers aren't meant to be actual Greek statues. They just evoke them.
Meanwhile, back on Azeroth, the overwhelming majority of the orcs languished in internment camps. One Orc had a dream. A dream to reunite the disparate souls trapped under the lock and key of the Alliance. So he raided the internment camps, freeing those orcs that he could, and reached out to a downtrodden tribe of trolls to aid him in rebuilding a Horde where orcs could live free of the humans who defeated them so long ago. That orc's name was... Rend.
And all the jewelry and decorative sculpted features like beards and elaborate hair?
That is such a weird angle to take. The Titans are first and foremost creators, they love to shape things and while their aesthetics are functional they are still complex. They are not apathetic or pragmatic constructs that seek to impose a universal order; they are individuals that impose their own order and thus their own value of beauty. Everything they make is embelished. Their art is not to be observed, it's there to impose their sense of beauty on reality.
And no reason to paint them mostly because it doesn't seem in their nature to create something that is so temporary. The Titans would work with stone or metal because those things have permanence.
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