Stoney boy

[username993720]

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/11099...-them-in-color

I guess Stoney Boy and his comrades will have to be colorful now

[Feali]

The sphinx is staring into my soul. This will give me nightmares.

[Moonrage]

I've known about this for a bit and I hate it. It looks so tacky.

[Unlimited Power]

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.

[Chromell]

Don't think the Titans cared about paint when they created the earthen and such. We're safe.

[Wonderment2]

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

[Nymrohd]

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.

I mean, we don't really know the saturation. We know the pigments.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

Such a weird thread topic, with one thing not having any influence over the other.

[Razorice]

That first picture is giving me TBC armor vibes lmao

[Defend]

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/11099...-them-in-color

I guess Stoney Boy and his comrades will have to be colorful now

You're Unhinged.

[Myradin]

WoW dinosaurs also typically aren't feathered like they should be.

[huth]

IRL Statues: Made to look asethically pleasing

Er... let's just say for some it's quite fortunate the colour didn't last.

[Wonderment2]

Er... let's just say for some it's quite fortunate the colour didn't last.

Asethic perfences change with time. Anyway the
modern perfence for white marbel statues almost certainly comes from familiarity with the paintless statue.

[Aucald]

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.

[username993720]

For all those that refer to what the Titans would have done, this thread refers to the Watchers' and Keepers' inspiration of Greek statues.

WoW dinosaurs also typically aren't feathered like they should be.

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.

[Skirdus]

OP seems to have forgotten that the earthen / titanforged were literally mass-produced via forges, not handcrafted to be works of art

[Rusken]

OP seems to have forgotten that the earthen / titanforged were literally mass-produced via forges, not handcrafted to be works of art

OP also seems to have forgotten that it's a fictional being and not any kind of recreation of real world art.

[Julian Rayne]

The Watchers aren't meant to be actual Greek statues. They just evoke them.

[Nymrohd]

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.

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.

[Alanar]

I've known about this for a bit and I hate it. It looks so tacky.

Feels like cheap greek restaurant vibe, check.