Once upon a time, I was working on some compositing for a
module at university. Part of the scene
I was putting together involved a spaceship lasering another spaceship. As placeholders for this, I quickly modelled
a couple of basic ships and textured them up to look a bit battered; a few rust
marks, some blast scars. That kind of
thing.
While I was part way through the work, my tutor came over
to see what I’d got so far. She wasn’t
so interested in the way I’d put the scene together. Her feedback was: “Spaceships are shiny. Make the ships shiny.”
I was a little puzzled as to why she thought that
spaceships had to be shiny. After all, real life spaceships aren’t shiny. Many
of the favourites from TV and movies aren’t shiny. In the end, I did make them shiny for her
since she was the one that was going to be marking it.
Personal preference can colour a lot when it comes to
art, literature, music. Which leads me
onto the second part: Twilight isn’t crap.
Before everyone protests that it really is, take a moment to think about
it. That book sold millions of
copies. Subjectively, those people didn’t
think it was crap. They enjoyed it, and
went on to buy the sequels.
Maybe, at the end of the day, some people just like their
vampires shiny.
…I mean spaceships.
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