What Julius Caesar really looked like 

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Lmao

is it real that you got a deadly disease of among us?

that's wrong, doesn't look like.

any chance you could do a face reveal so we can get a more accurate picture of you?

He has a wife you know

@@bornanagaming3329 yes, Incontinentia

@@obamacare9755 Incontinentia Buttocks

Well I think it's a joke name

RIP Biggus Dickus Killed by Biggus Chungus

If necessary, but he had great charm too, and a sense of humor. I doubt Moff Tarkin had a sense of humor.😁

>Also the Metahumans program looks like a glorified Create-a-Sim from The Sims franchise 😄 This is different because this software will allow game developers to develop human models faster to speed up the game development process. Right now, a AAA game takes anywhere between two to five years with games like RDR2 taking eight years. With latest tools like Generative AI (eg: Dall-E 2) and metahuman this time will probably be reduced by an year or so. That will mean that we will be able to play more games.

I wonder who else would be good. Metahumans is so cool, I could waste all day there.

@@PhilEdwardsInc Maybe famously ugly characters? like Homer (the writer) or Socrates, wold have a lot of versions and descriptions to go from. Or famous figures like Cleopatra, or a notorious pirate!

@@daniloduarte3372 Oh I’m adding all these to my list - but Pirate is definitely my fave at the moment…

This depiction has very Asian eyes.

​@@simons1120Not true. There are no Asian eyes at all. This is stupid😂

Thanks! Yeah, I gotta give it a try when I get a fancy new computer. I wasn't super happy with Julius here, but I know Unreal Engine can do some amazing other stuff with geography.

So I think the laurel element opens up a whole level of stuff I'm under-read to talk about, but...(warning: longwinded answer) I *think* the right way to think of the laurel as one of the many ways Caesar scooped up symbols of power, using them to affirm and enhance his own stature and, at the same time, creating a cycle in which they became more important. Caesar earned the civic crown at the Siege of Mytilene in 81 BC, which was kinda the justification he kept using. Imagine, like, an Olympian running for President and just always wearing their medal (or maybe a general running for office and always wearing his uniform). As far as the relationship to baldness...I kinda take Suetonius with a grain of salt. For me, the jab certainly affirms that Caesar really was going bald, but because of the one-source problem I mention in the video, I'm hesitant to say that's the one reason Caesar adopted it (though that is what Suetonius jokes). I think we just will never know where the line is between symbolic aggrandizement and agricultural Rogaine.

@@PhilEdwardsInc Yeah, agree with you on that. Thanks for the reply. Keep up the good work

Yeah him saying that REALLY bugged me. Suetonius should only be used when you absolutely have nothing more reliable.

That's crazy you say that - I actually had noodled around on that a bit! Maybe when I get my new computer I'll give it a try.

I felt I hedged quite a lot when describing the quality of sources.

It’s so cool. It killed me not to learn Unreal Engine for it - I got Julius in there, but just couldn’t make the time to learn the cameras and settings. Amazing hobby opportunity though.

Jukebox by Patrick Patrikios. It's part of the RU-vid audio library.

Fascinating though.

you’re not wrong…

agreed!

and who knows, maybe Caesar defined some of the beauty standards too.

a great line for bumble profiles

“Um excuse me Brutus, you too? OH MY GOSH.”

yea it's just for fun

i think it'd work better with the tech today!

I feel that - I think it’s a combo of tech and artist (me) limitations, though that statue is a bit over the top imho….

@@PhilEdwardsInc is there a way to use the statue as a base and add textures to it? Also adding minor adjustments that might be more accurate (predictably). For some reason I've always wanted to know what ceasar looked like and I hope there's something undiscovered out there that is an accurate gold standard representation

@@thedonmecca5554 I think you could pretty easily paint it. If you're looking for a literal version, this one is as good as you could get: www.reddit.com/r/spqrposting/comments/l49xgn/caivs_ivlivs_caesar_face_reconstruction_based_on/ I kinda wanted that facial animation/modeling too for mine.

this is very true

indeed

Emperor Nero literally had blonde hair and blue eyes. The depictions of dark romans you always see are historically inaccurate. Most emperors were fair of skin and had grey, green or blue eyes.

@@casualcadaver welllll.... I mean while there were a lot of fair skinned people back then as well you just have to read how Julius describes the germanic and gallic people. There was definitly a huge difference in how they looked. Else he wouldn't have been so scared of a dude from the danube saying hi xD And while fair skin was a sign of wealth (as in "hey guys look I dont need to go out because Im so wealthy I can just sit in my room all day haha") Julius was a general. He had to have spend a LOT of time in the sun. he had to have a good tan on there! Nowadays there is a huge misconception of how the ancient world looked like. From right wing fanatics using the "white pure statues" to symbolize european "purity" (even tough back then an uncolored statue was probably just a sign of a dude not having enough cash to buy colors) to the good ol' "neo-" Romans ...

I know this thread is 2 years old, but we have a very reliable studies now on genetic continuum of Italian peninsula. The most recent, mainstream and authoritative study "Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean" from 2019 states that in the period of Roman Republic up to the early Imperial period the Ancient Romans had closest genetic resemblence to modern-day Italian population, but not to Italian population as a whole, rather, modern populations of Central and North-Eastern Italy thus provinces such as: Lazio, Abruzzo, Marche, Tuscany, Emiglia-Romana, Veneto. This intrestingly and not unexpectedly excludes regions that had a gene flow from "neighboring" populations: South Italy from Greeks, Arabs and Maghreb, Sardinia which hasn't been populated by Italic tribes and North-Western Italy that was influenced by Germanic peoples. Still, if you look at the regions mentioned and contemporary Italian populations living there - they are by all accounts white if we go by American definition of the term. Even certainly more so than Italian diaspora in US which has primarily ventured out from South Italy. In Ancient Rome, both Republican and Imperial periods we have more than a handful of cases of notable blonde characters whose blondish hair colour was described with same terms as when it was applied to Gauls or Germanics ("aurea caesaries" - "golden blonde"), namely Sulla (famous Roman dictator of late Republican period), emperors Lucius Verus and Nero as well as emperor Augustus himself (even thought it's noted his hair "inclined" to that color so he might've been a tawny blonde) as well as some smaller figures from Nerva-Antonine dynasty and Julian dynasty. It's noted that authors writing about these figures, oftentimes their contemporaries while noted briefly "distinctiveness" of the coloring and the look, they did not find them overwhelmingly uncommon in Roman population.