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These CGI Hunks Are Just Bags of Male Tears

Drag them, Croatian digital artist Marta Strazicic, drag them.
Images courtesy the artist

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Horrific 3D models of distorted human bodies with obvious muscle spasms and rubber flesh. Instagram tiles of sinister faces floating in tears and colossal male bodies masturbating to their own reflections in a lava lake. The computer-generated characters of Pirate_Sheep (Marta Strazicic) usually bear signs of confusion, sorrow, and even agony. Ed Atkins, Jordan Wolfson, and Ed Fornieles are usually the first names on the list when it comes to high-res digital imagery that rends and renders the complexities of flesh. This third-year animation student at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, however, makes her natural talent clear when it comes to extreme, hypernatural monstrosities.

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“I want to explore the problematics of human fragility, attitude of society towards the individual, social pressure,” explains Strazicic to The Creators Project. “At the same time, I want to add a humorous response to the way too serious understanding of one’s own identity in conflict with our ‘superficial’ desires that we usually end up suppressing, so society won’t judge us,” she adds. “I want to investigate the problem of masculine fragility caused by the social pressure on heterosexual males.”

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Strazicic says that she wants to expand her work into new media and moving images, a plateau that would allow her “to explore where and in what ways an unconventional 3D animation can find its place, outside of the context of the narrative film.” The foundation is there, though; her Pirate_Sheep accounts are garnering attention for the freakishly intimate worlds they depict.

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To learn more about Marta Strazicic’s work check her Instagram and Tumblr.

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