Comment on Skeksis court -Color. by SkekLa
And knows it! XD...
Ah, good old Zok...He was an interesting face indeed!...Those eyes he had were mesmerizing!
His golden carapace, and his "tired of everything" expression...He was as unique as the others!
Whatever most people would claim about them being a bunch of awful creatures...i always found a strange kind of beauty in all of them. If even a decadent beauty.
I don't only mean their clothes (which are rich enough as to make any human king or queen die in envy!) but also their twisted and strange bodily forms. Even as a kid that scene with the undressed Chamberlain let me thinking I didn't hate what i saw. For me, he looked like the combination of a maniraptoran dinosaur, a vulture, adding some mammalian features. Not our obvious and everyday concept of beauty...but not an entire aberration either !...
For me it was an interesting sight. More when It dawned on me that this particular scene was used by Henson cleverly to sell all of us the notion that "There wasn't just a bunch of filling and cables underneath those lumping robes, but true solid skeksis"
Ah, good old Zok...He was an interesting face indeed!...Those eyes he had were mesmerizing!
His golden carapace, and his "tired of everything" expression...He was as unique as the others!
Whatever most people would claim about them being a bunch of awful creatures...i always found a strange kind of beauty in all of them. If even a decadent beauty.
I don't only mean their clothes (which are rich enough as to make any human king or queen die in envy!) but also their twisted and strange bodily forms. Even as a kid that scene with the undressed Chamberlain let me thinking I didn't hate what i saw. For me, he looked like the combination of a maniraptoran dinosaur, a vulture, adding some mammalian features. Not our obvious and everyday concept of beauty...but not an entire aberration either !...
For me it was an interesting sight. More when It dawned on me that this particular scene was used by Henson cleverly to sell all of us the notion that "There wasn't just a bunch of filling and cables underneath those lumping robes, but true solid skeksis"
yes! you described them so perfectly!. The typical, gorgeous, marble stoned adonis type characters get so boring and dull at times. :/.
I even have my own character who isn't what I would consider the typical "good looking type" I also looked to the Skeksis as a source of reference as my character has a heavily scarred face and I wanted it to have a disfigured look to it. I absolutely loved the gnarled lumpy looks on the Skeksis face and found them to be an excellent resource to study as they weren't just some flat cgi surface, they were a physical, tangible object.
I also don't remember naked Chamberlain bothering me as a kid, I liked him and felt sorry for him XD.
I even have my own character who isn't what I would consider the typical "good looking type" I also looked to the Skeksis as a source of reference as my character has a heavily scarred face and I wanted it to have a disfigured look to it. I absolutely loved the gnarled lumpy looks on the Skeksis face and found them to be an excellent resource to study as they weren't just some flat cgi surface, they were a physical, tangible object.
I also don't remember naked Chamberlain bothering me as a kid, I liked him and felt sorry for him XD.