Tangentially related: I recently learned that Thomas Kinkaide—the self-styled “Painter of Light” famous for building a shady Ray Kroc-style franchise of art galleries selling prints of his sappy Americana landscapes back in the 1990s—got his first big break painting backgrounds for Ralph Bakshi’s Fire and Ice fantasy epic.
Makes me think someone ought to buy up some of those old Kinkaide landscapes on the cheap and paint in a bunch of barbarians fighting off orc raiders.
