Imagine If Pixar Were Founded By Magritte

Takeshi Murata revels in the creation of low-fi, computer-generated environments. CGI is one of the few areas of art that’s still concerned with being the absolute best. Who can create the most lifelike figures? What company can blur the boundaries between real landscapes and invented environments? The goal is simple: realism. Or better put, the goal is what we think is realism, until we see CGI that’s one step more realistic. The best always changes, so the goal always changes. Takeshi Murata is an artist who’s stepped outside this rat race. He creates intentionally crude computer-generated scenes that sit outside any place or time in graphic development. His latest collection, Synthesizers, looks like surrealism by an odd-world, pre-Jobsonian Pixar, or a maybe a sentient version of Maya attempting to make its own art.Read Full Story