Project Facade.

[MJ12]

The First World War was a war dominated by high explosives and heavy artillery. Battlefield casualties included an unprecedented number with horrific facial injuries - injuries so severe the men were commonly unrecognizable to loved ones and friends. Often unable to see, hear, speak eat or drink, they struggled to re-assimilate back into civilian life. This secondary tragedy - the living unable to "live" - catalyzed Surgeon Sir Harold Gillies to transform the fledgling discipline of plastic surgery based on his unrivalled observation of the profoundly wounded and his ability to push the parameters of the profession beyond all known techniques.

http://www.projectfacade.com/index.php?

Below you will see photos that were used as influence for two very recognizable Splicers from Bioshock. Warning: Very disturbing/depressing images.-

Spoiler

I won't look at those splicers the same way again. In fact, I often wonder if those people are still alive... It seems to be sort of exploiting them to use them directly for that.


Below are case studies, Warning: Very disturbing/depressing images.
http://www.projectfacade.com/index.php?/case/C10/




It's absolutely facinating that at this time we were able to go that far. Obviously it's not perfect, but if you look at the before and after results it's quite astounding.

 

[Vegeta897]

Jesus Christ..

 

[mechanicallizard]

astounding yes, but...god.......the wounds are horrific, and damage to such an extent..
one of them, Sea (army case study), recieved a gunshot wound to the chin, the damage
was unbelievable. ive hunted all of my life, so i know full well what guns are capable of,
but to see pics like that....jesus...

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Cool.

 

[Jintor]

And I suddenly realise why plastic surgery is a legitimate medical path.

 

[knut]

Poor show, Bioshock art director. To think that some of the Splicer designs are seriously as copy/paste as those soldiers' faces is pretty poor design work. I mean, I can understand if they take influence - and I'm only seeing two out of what, 8 different Splicer varients so I may be jumping the gun - but these two Splicers here, those designs are just lazy.

 

[JFry]

The guy with his chin blown off is probably the most disturbing for me. That would be horrible to live thru. Pretty impressive how well they were able to rebuild it.

 

[lame-o]

Did they actually rebuild his chin though? Or is it just a hunk of skin shaped like a chin?

 

[Top Secret]

I'm actually astounded at medical technology in the 20's. Far superior to what I thought it was.

 

[Leto]

They had an x-ray of some sort of mechanism for the jaw, so they might have tried to reconstruct it, but remember this was World War 1, they could only do so much.

I found it very sad when they had the pictures of the soldiers before the injuries, they will never be back to normal again

 

[Emporius]

My God

****, I don't know what to say

 

[MJ12]

It's very depressing to think how their lives must have been affected by this. Besides the obvious physical pains, but the number of close people they lost due to their own insecurity of their features, or to the fear and neglect of their close ones themselves.


Makes me grateful.

 

[Azner]

Some of them look pretty good after surgery.