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Hoxy little arms--or are they Hoxy little faces...? They're both!! Blatantly inappropriate conflation of organ systems along the lines ofthomastapir.deviantart.com/art…
I'm not sure if I should consider these Chimerapes or not--I didn't think of the Chimerapes as being quite this aberrant in terms of body design. Maybe they're from the outer seeding limits of Pithecoid Space....
I pictured the top one being a ventral view and the bottom dorsal, but that's not a necessary interpretation. Note the closed eye on the "shoulder" at bottom, and the keratinaceous barbels to either side of the mouth...These act as tactile and proximity sensors and also help to protect the vulnerable lips.
These are mostly for Ben, because I know how much he loves the hot sweaty Hox subversion!!
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All I can imagine now are muscular topless guys with eyes on their biceps and shoulders, winking seductively...
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Just be careful, one of them might literally throw you a kiss! XD
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Winking, as they flex, I might add...
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It's impossible for them not to, what with the tendon connections between their eyelids and biceps!
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Yeah, this is where it gets uncomfortable.
Also, on my thing I mentioned before, about giant fetishism, but not liking overblown stuff like the Hulk. I should add, I don't like the look of recent CG Hulks, but Lou Farrigno as the hulk is not a problem.
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Oh, yeah, that makes total sense to me. I think it's almost an uncanny valley thing, in a way--like, the Hulk might look sexy as a comic character but when you see those same distorted proportions brought to life in ultra-realistic CGI, it's weird and unsettling, like one of those Japanese physiognomic androids. Like...hmm, I'm not sure I'm really explaining this right, but a maquette like this looks pretty hot to me:
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But if I saw those exact same proportions and everything on an actual living woman, it would be startling, unsettling, disturbing...It would look like deformity. Like, the most unesttling "alien" character in the first of those new Star Trek films was the creepy doctor alien nurse lady with the oversized eyes.
I don't know, am I close or do you think it's something else altogether?? It's an interesting discussion, I find myself reflecting on it every time I consider the issue of giant humans. Which happens with alarming regularity!
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That's part of it. It's also the fact that the ultra-thick proportions of the cg hulk are one deviation too far from the human form, it's mainly the ankles, wrists, head, neck, too big and thick. Lou Farrigno is great, and he made the hulk look real, and he's also sexy. I suspect a hulk-like creature would be what a real giant would look like, simply from a biomechanical perspective.
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Oh, interesting...That raises another question, I think--the extent to which the CG representations of scaled-up, um, beings?, especially recognizable organisms like humans, might have to be modified from the original artistic vision to accommodate the viewer's intuitive response to the feasibility of the depiction. I mean, again with the idea that the heightened realism of the CG medium can backfire, in a way, especially where human anatomy is involved...If the Hulk were depicted on the scale shown in the films but had normal human proportions, would the audience reflexively balk at that, reject it as implausible...? I don't know to what extent they deliberately consider those kinds of factors, but it does make me wonder if, for example, the CG guys look at a quick animated render of a normally proportioned Hulk moving in a scale environment and immediately say, "Okay, nobody's going to buy that, it looks weird, it's not convincing...We better make his joints more robust, give him a thicker neck and head." --Or maybe those factors don't even come into play, maybe it's a matter of aesthetics--"It's the Hulk, he's gotta be MASSIVE!" I'd be curious to find out, though.
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That is interesting. I suspect they must have thought that hulk had to be massive, and a little ugly, too.
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Yeah, that's probably true....You know, if I was doing the Hulk I'd probably make him look more ape-ish, with a heavy jaw and the like. King Kong-ish, almost...Hmm, now that I think about it the CGI King Kong didn't look too out-of-synch to me, from the brief snippets I saw of the movie. Maybe gorillas "scale" better to larger sizes.
Oh, you've seen turbofanatic's Hulk, haven't you?
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I think apes, being more "thick" probably do scale better.
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These look like pics of Wilbur Whateley's arms. They are why he always wore long sleeves in public!
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Imagine him at summer camp: "'Mable Mable, strong and able, get your elbows off the table!!' .....Oh, wait. Those are your mouths. Excuse me."
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Wow, you know, what you're saying about these possibly being even further branches of panspermia beyond the 'chimerape zone' strikes me as a very poignant statement. I almost imagine these as the creatures in their entirety, as if they have undergone some kind of DNA fragmentation where the arm has cone to represent the whole body. Something that strikes me also, which I assume is a bit of tangental magnified out of proportion, is the very pleasing oil slickness of the color scheme you've given these 2. The coloration, combined with the anatomy, strikes me as implying that these are at the beginning of something like a transition toward creatures of a Lovecraftian bent.
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re: The (oil slickness of the color scheme), combined with the anatomy, strikes me as implying that these are at the beginning of something like a transition toward creatures of a Lovecraftian bent.
Oh wow, that's something I hadn't considered but it's a very evocative suggestion...I could also see it as representative of the way their genes and anatomy have become more 'slippery," less distinctly defined, compartmentalized, or segregated--they seem to be moving towards a gestalt integration of disparate organ systems throughout the body. Or maybe that's what you were getting at with the Lovecraft thing, that kind of biological plasticity and polymorphism. Kind of reminds me of the premise in Hothouse, that the phyletic barriers between organisms begin to break down during the evolutionary senescence of the dying Earth...Perhaps something similar happens on the Hox scale at the outer boundaries of panspermic seeding regions, as we move further from the terrestrial baseline both spatially and genetically.
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Well they say that there are taste receptors all throughout our bodies that actually are doing tasting. So arms that do their own sensing well, you're just one step ahead of nature Tom!
Love the colours used.
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Oh wow, I didn't know that! About the taste receptors, I mean...See, things like that really pique my interest--the suggestion of aborted evolutionary possibilities therein. I want track down ALL those little odds and ends and bring them to term, as it were.
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One day I am sure you will
Here's the link if you are interested: www.bbc.com/future/story/20130…
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AWESOME...Thank you! : D
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Really? Can you link me? :3
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www.bbc.com/future/story/20130…
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Wow This makes a lot of sense - chemical sniffers!
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Yeah, it always takes an amazing scientific breakthrough to find the facts but afterwards it does makes perfect sense! Love science!
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D'OH--I totally blew my chance to ask if they're also hard to swallow!
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