Oversized amiga shirts, Buckingham Palace, sheep - that sort of thing...

[cecilia]

gasp! your'e not suggesting that image is in any way doctored, are you?

oh, no!!! those edges don't show up at ALL!!!!
 :-o  :-o  :-o

thanks for the wake up! :roflmao:

[cecilia]

this is what happens when amatures monkey with color correction!

Oh, the Horror! Oh, the Humanity!

:roflmao:

[cecilia]

i'm pulling your leg!

don't you guys like that?
 :-o

[cecilia]

what are you guys drinking that makes you all color blind?
 :pint:

[cecilia]

Depends which one

well, I'll go looking and you tell me when I found it. ok?

Even I could see kenny's picture from the faces site was chromatically challenged

ah, don't sweat it. I spent years learning how to do this image processing cr.ap

 :-P

my first impulse was to see the humor in your efforts and enjoy it just as it is and then my professional brain takes over and starts analysing what's "wrong" with it.

actually, there's nothing wrong. it's supposed to be funny, rediculous and not quite right.
i just saved a copy because I want to chuckle when i get offline.
good job! :insane:

now, back to the leg...... :lol:

[cecilia]

Is it me or does that boing ball look kinda like a breast?

it's you....I tend to see penis's all over the place.
 :-P

[cecilia]

that_punk_guy wrote:

Karlos wrote:
I knew from the start the colours wouldnt be right :-) You know, I actually sampled colour for the right edge highlight from the brighter areas of the background, thinking it would look more realistic... Shows you where logic gets you :-)

I think "logically" it just wouldn't be as bright reflecting off Kenny's back. That's why it looks odd :-)

it's more complex than that.
the figure is too bright to be in that dark background. even with a light directly on him. his back edges would be melding into the background shadows.
plus, the background is more redish and the figure is more bluish. that would have to balanced out with color curves.

you don't really what to know any of this, right? :lol:

[cecilia]

feel free to fix it

I could...but would it be funnier?
I doubt it.
now, if you came up with a situation where you really needed a picture to look "real" to be really funny, well, THEN it would be worth it.
and, i'd be happy to help out. :-D

btw, a few months ago I made this as a goof for anyone who wanted to put words in the mouths of certain people.
I had some idea for a cartoon, but recent events seem to have made comedy redundant. :-P

[cecilia]

oh, Snap! now I'm holding a class! :lol:

well, you went a bit too far, but that was a good effort.

The thing is that you made ALL his edges like this and the bottom of the shirt wouldn't have a shadow. (Yes, I know you just did a quick and dirty effect).

I would make mattes around various parts so I could control how dark certain edges get. I use AfterEffects for this sort of work. I'm used to it and I like it.

Also, in AE I can control the feathering of all edges and that helps to "marry" pieces of a comp togther.

plus, the color hasn't been corrected yet and that helps alot to create the illusion that peices belong in the same space.
but then, we already know you are color-challenged. So, i won't bug you about that. :-P

[cecilia]

well, he just looks pinker, rather than redder.
I swear, I'm not being unreasonable. (this is mostly for people just finding this thread and not quite realizing what's happening here)

I my past jobs, I have to think like this all day long. I have to alter effects sometimes by one number. sometimes alter a feathering by half a pixel. just to get it RIGHT.
I find this kind of fiddling quite interesting.

But then, i AM odd  :-P

One of the most interesting shots I had to do was one for "From the Earth to the Moon". There was this 16 mm footage from Gus Grissom's funeral (LBJ and other famous people were in it) Including Wally Shirah. I had to substitute the original Wally with the actor who was portarying him in this shot.
What I spent alot of time doing before I even started putting anything together was examining the colors and textures of this digitized 16mm film. It's different than stuff shot today.
and my job was to match that with the footage I had of the actor who was shot very crisply against blue screen.

man, what a job that was!

you can see a frame of a before and after here

[cecilia]

my arms and Kenny's face don't seem to go together...

they need to be done separately - ergo the usefulness of mattes.
on some shots I've had as many as two dozen mattes. (maybe more. my memory on this is fuzzy).

anyway, as I think about this, the "trick" is to see this scene as 3 dimensional. you have to imagine not only what you see but what is behind and around the scene. like where is this light that "seems" to be on "Kenny"? what kind of light? where is it pointed? what color is it? and so on. i know there isn't a REAL light. but to make a composite work, you have to imagine these sorts of things. that affects how you have to alter things to fit inside this imagined place.

If I had to do this for a real job - and not a comedy moment - i would have fixed Kenny's face first thing. as it is now, all the information has been removed from it. whenever you lighten or overlighten an image you remove information.

a real job would hopefully have better source pic. altho, now always :-)

[cecilia]

:roflmao:
this just gets funnier and funnier!

[cecilia]

nicomen wrote:

btw, a few months ago I made this as a goof for anyone who wanted to put words in the mouths of certain people. I had some idea for a cartoon, but recent events seem to have made comedy redundant.

Seen this?

no, i haven't !
if anything it needs to be more vicious :-P

I made my little effort because after telling a friend of mine (who has nothing to do with amigas in any way) what the situation was he said they sounded like Boris and Natascia (Of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons).
I think it's actually a perfect characterization.

and a cartoon would be great. I mean, the lines have already been written!!! Just look at any of those animations and it looks like another adventure of Boris and Natascia trying to outwit "moose an' squirr-el" and falling down every time!

it's just TOO funny!:roflmao:

[cecilia]

Karlos wrote:
@nicomen

:roflmao:

You missed something out of that last image edit. Thankfully I realised where you were headed with it :-D

ah, yes!
you have captured the natural "thug-like" qualities of our very own beloved, Kenny!  :love:

(yes, nicomen, you improved kenny's face - although the edges have been brought out, but as this is an exercise in sillyness, it's not a problem). really, it makes him look like he's about to blow a gasket!
 :lol:

[cecilia]

you forgot:

Written and Directed by : Karlos

and my credit should be-

Special Effects Supervisor : cecilia