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The impressionistic clip from the photographer/director known for his work with the Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam features a mix of performance footage and floating flowers with archival photos from throughout the band’s quarter-century-plus history.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2025
Although the idea was to create a more impressionistic and hand-painted style for the animation, Sanders discovered that the animals ended up looking more believable than those rendered in photorealistic CG.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
One of the things that really surprised me in getting away from that photorealism that we were locked into for such a long time, and getting into this painterly, more impressionistic look that extended from the backgrounds to the characters themselves, was the overall effect was more believable.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, professional photographer Steven Sebring followed the poet-singer-punk progenitor across time and space, then rearranged the pieces into an impressionistic collage.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2025
Although the idea was to create a more impressionistic and hand-painted style for the animation, Sanders discovered that the animals ended up looking more believable than those rendered in photorealistic CG.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
One of the things that really surprised me in getting away from that photorealism that we were locked into for such a long time, and getting into this painterly, more impressionistic look that extended from the backgrounds to the characters themselves, was the overall effect was more believable.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, professional photographer Steven Sebring followed the poet-singer-punk progenitor across time and space, then rearranged the pieces into an impressionistic collage.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Impressionistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionistic. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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