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Art Student's Car Vanishing Act

Posted by samzenpus on from the better-than-Earl-Scheib dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A design student made a battered old Skoda 'disappear' by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park. Sara Watson, who is studying drawing at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan), took three weeks to transform the car's appearance.She created the illusion in the car park outside her studio at Uclan's Hanover Building in Preston. The car is now being used for advertising by the local recycling firm that donated the vehicle."

7 comments

  1. Very cool by JWSmythe · · Score: 1

        That is actually a very nice piece of work. I wish I could see it in person. I'm sure the 1st person view, walking around until suddenly everything lines up, must be very interesting.

       

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    1. Re:Very cool by celtislav · · Score: 1

      This somewhat grainy and brief sequence of stills is not exactly a walk around, but it helps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUiYgUB3RkA

    2. Re:Very cool by celtislav · · Score: 1

      Apologies JWSmythe, I see now that the images in the youtube clip are all available in the BBC arcticle . . . As for the piece itself, it would seem to be a kind of negative Trompe-l'Oeil. Where Trompe-l'Oeil is the effect of using paint to render the appearance of a 3D entity, this effect uses paint to render the disappearance of a 3D entity. I share your desire to see a this intriguing concept in person.

  2. Ummm, isn't it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    parked in a clearway?

  3. cloaking ftw by yogi192 · · Score: 0

    Is that a cloaking device... Very cool artistic effect

  4. It seems to me... by clone53421 · · Score: 1

    that it would be very difficult to drive. What with the windows painted over, and all.

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    1. Re:It seems to me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      that it would be very difficult to drive. What with the windows painted over, and all.

      Yeah, it seems cool at first glance, but then it shows a lack of discipline when you subject it to the "Was it photoshopped?" test. Obviously not in this case, but you can see a large number of "render" flaws that it lacks an engineer's touch. It would have been a lot more impressive if the interior of the card was painted instead of the windows, and it would have retained actual car functionality. Added touches would have been painting the tires to match as well, possibly adding an LED light to mute the shadows a bit.

      Either way, I would I have preferred a tachikoma :)