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<blockquote data-quote="jonesjb" data-source="post: 228117" data-attributes="member: 2290"><p>Ok, I don't technically mean artwork that was created in PhotoShop, as a lot of vector/hand drawn/digital art are all created using PhotoShop. And I'm not talking about clean, negative space etc. What I mean is that much of Stern's artwork is subpar to Williams due to it being a collage of photos. It comes across as lazy, rather than refashioning something for purpose... It looks like they just copy a whole bunch of photos, put them together and are done with it. Actually the hand drawn artwork tends to be cleaner (something important when you are trying to follow a moving ball), the colors are flat; compare this with photo montage Stern... photos make it busier because of all of the detail in the photos. For example, compare:</p><p></p><p>-The subpar Stern Indiana Jones to the Williams one.</p><p></p><p>-Bally/Williams isn't always better (yes this example has nothing to do with Stern)... compare the subpar photographic Bally artwork for The Shadow translite with the beautiful Aurich alternate Shadow translite, (Google it) of which the latter would have created digitally. See it has nothing to do with digital/non-digital, but when art is reliant on photographs, it tends to look worse and less timeless (and it's just that Stern tends to rely on photographs more).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jonesjb, post: 228117, member: 2290"] Ok, I don't technically mean artwork that was created in PhotoShop, as a lot of vector/hand drawn/digital art are all created using PhotoShop. And I'm not talking about clean, negative space etc. What I mean is that much of Stern's artwork is subpar to Williams due to it being a collage of photos. It comes across as lazy, rather than refashioning something for purpose... It looks like they just copy a whole bunch of photos, put them together and are done with it. Actually the hand drawn artwork tends to be cleaner (something important when you are trying to follow a moving ball), the colors are flat; compare this with photo montage Stern... photos make it busier because of all of the detail in the photos. For example, compare: -The subpar Stern Indiana Jones to the Williams one. -Bally/Williams isn't always better (yes this example has nothing to do with Stern)... compare the subpar photographic Bally artwork for The Shadow translite with the beautiful Aurich alternate Shadow translite, (Google it) of which the latter would have created digitally. See it has nothing to do with digital/non-digital, but when art is reliant on photographs, it tends to look worse and less timeless (and it's just that Stern tends to rely on photographs more). [/QUOTE]
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