dystopia-arts-girls: Trying to figure out the original artist with tineye led me down a bit of a rab
dystopia-arts-girls: Trying to figure out the original artist with tineye led me down a bit of a rabbit hole here. This got a bunch of buzz online 8~9 years ago with that a Chinese artist, Baishi, made this painting in the early 20th century, entirely predating Giger’s Necronom IV which inspired the creature design in the movies. Apparently this claim originated on Weibo, here’s an article about it. Tineye also pulled up some imgur galleries and blog posts from a few years later claiming it was Japanese (but also predates the Alien franchise). These claims are obviously pretty suspect, people have been calling it a hoax from the beginning, and I’m no closer to finding an artist credit. but anyways, interesting Internet Story to this one. -- source link
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