Re: Pibgorn 7.12.2005(?)

Dave Brown wrote: 
pottedmeatproduct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (dkra) writes:

The bespectacled Thorax is drawn with no eyes.  None.  At all.  However,
his eyeglasses, including earpieces, are rendered in great detail.


Is this
(a) some sort of profound statement about how Thorax is eyeless,
yet sees all?
or
(b) an artistic convention I've seen employed elsewhere, to make
a bespectacled character's face appear less cluttered? 

The truth is that there are no eyes there at all.  Just glasses.
That's right--Thorax's brother is Bunsen from "The Muppet Show".

Here I'm thinking of Mike Doonesebury, whose specs have been
rendered into a sort of glued-on pince-nez,



The science-fiction video game "Xenosaga" had a wonderful take on
that, thrown in casually as a one-off detail.  The hero is a lady
who wears glasses.  (Apparently in the distant future, they've
lost the ability to repair people's poor eyesight, although given
the character's, adventures, I can certainly see how glasses would
often be more practical than contacts.)

Her glasses don't have any arms--they look like a sort of glued-on
pince-nez like Mike Doonesbury's.  When I noticed it fairly soon
in the game, it started really bothering me--the rest of the game
pays lots of attention to little details that I didn't think
they'd be lazy with the hero's glasses.

There's a scene in the game where she's woken up in the middle of
the night, though.  She isn't wearing her glasses.  She casually
reaches over to her bedside table, grabs this little pince-nez
thing, and the lenses *expand* from her nose outwards to cover her
eyes.  Very nicely done, and it thoroughly satisfied the nitpicker
in me.

--Dave 

Check this out:

http://www.piercedglasses.com/

SFW, but not for the overly squeamish.

Peter Trei
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