CHUCKMATRIX Clip practices the dying art of prim sculpture, all of his pieces consist entirely or almost entirely of normal prims. If he does use sculpties, they are mostly embellishments. Enjoy this piece as a piece of SL history, a form of art that few people practice anymore. Mesh is great, but pieces like this is where sculpture in SL got it's start.
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Always Been A HUGE Fan!
I've been in SL since early 2006 and was originally attracted to it by the amazing things I've seen people build using prims - this was back before sculpts and mesh were even possible. By today's (very spoiled) standards, these old prim-based sculptures look 'dated' and 'childish' to some, while others go into full-on freak-out mode when they see the 'outrageous' prim count.
You have to understand, at the time, basic prims were the only thing we had to work with - and some very impressive builds such as this one were the result of pure, raw mentally-crafted spatial talent rather than the vast majority of the simple mindless click-click-done creations that flood the SL Marketplace today by the minute.
When I see new SL residents denigrate and degrade and slander these original builders and their creations I cannot help but get absolutely furious. And seeing them giving 1-star reviews gives me the equivalent of real-world road rage.
Seriously. If you don't recognize something this amazing when you see it, and immediately comprehend the amount of mental acuity and acumen involved to create it, then I feel deeply sorry for you, because you have lost a very important part of the human condition - the innate recognition of greatness.
Having said all that, it does bug me that the right hand pinkie fingernail is missing from this build, but I know that had to be entirely by accident and I refuse to give any reduction in rating for it. For one, I didn't notice it right away, and several friends never noticed it until I mentioned it. On the plus side, given this is modify and copy, I simply replicated the pinkie nail from the left pinkie finger and positioned it on the right pinkie finger. That alone was an exercise in extreme patience, just getting the angle and position just right, reminding me yet again how difficult it was to create prim-based sculptures like this one!
Bravo!
