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btvs challenge 🏹 favorite buffy summers moment [2 of 2]

What the what now?!

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves !

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

the-time-goddess-of-221b-deacti

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

starsintheskysandsontheshore

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

sodeartomyheart

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

firey-rising-demon-deactivated2

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!

polarcell

fandom wide mandate that everyone has to re-watch the source material in steady intervals to minimize intense fandomization of tropes and characterizations that happens when people go without new source material for too long

taiey

#like renewing a license to practice every few years

transsexual-menace

photo taken of leather dykes in london in 1988 | photo: del lagrace volcano

rotting-possum

No thoughts.

Only Jeane-Pierre Gibrat illustration of women.

profeminist

Matthew Hodson: “ 20 years ago, 2 years after the arrival of combination therapy that effectively treated #HIV, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s LGBT newspaper ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.”

naamahdarling

Y'all need to appreciate that this was practically fucking *yesterday*.

reggiemess

I love it when dogs try to help but the task at hand requires zero dogs so they just kinda stand in front of you and look serious.

twitchytyrant

middle aged men do this too

loversdreamersandyou

latestagejenga

I love this blue creature man

jacksoul

ruinedchildhood

The Amanda Show

robertpattisons

thatbatman-blog

luckyspike

futurama is one of those shows that lures you in by being funny and then rips your fucking heart out

notadangirl-blog

If you didn’t know the hand was her father, the squid thing her mother, her parents left her at an orphanage when she was a baby but in reality were looking out for her all her life

darrenofskies

what makes it even sadder is the reason they left her in an orphanage. they didn’t want her to know she was a mutant. they wanted her to live a normal human life so they gave her up while they live in the sewers as mutants.

scottsumrners

she is a cyclops

how did she NOT know she was a mutant

platinumcracker-blog

BITCH if u watched the show or did any research at all you’d know that she thought she was an ALIEN, which in that society was completely acceptable. Try again!!!!

bleauberry

Her mother used her Ph.D in Exolinguistics to forge a note in an incomprehensible alien language to make the deception seem legit, so nobody would ever question why she was the only cyclops, or suspect her of being a mutant on the surface, which was illegal.