Monday, September 29, 2003
Friday, September 26, 2003
CHRISTMAS IN SEPTEMBER?
Well not really, but here is an image I made for my friends. See I have an interesting way of wrapping gifts to be handed out to my dearest of friends. First, I only use plain brown package covering paper. No use in putting on that festive holiday crud, that wont do. Next I take some form of heavy black pen and I proceed to write a message on the wrapping paper that is desinged specifically for the person who I am giving the gift to.
This message can take many forms including: a hint to what the present is, a heartfilled annecdote, or a detailed description of the person's horrible death by means of the gift. Knowing me of course, last year I chose to write how each of my friends were going to die horribly because of the gifts I had just given them. Along with the wrapping went that picture you see up above.
That picture was done using my standard method, but the source was this really ugly british woman who was on some kind of American Idol rip off. All you need to know is that in un-zombified form she's much more hideous than what you see above. Sadly I don't have the source, otherwise I'd really make you feel sick. That reminds me, I need to plan out what I'm going to do this year for christmas. I have to think of a christmas related image that will really turn someone's stomach inside out upon viewing it.
Monday, September 22, 2003
And this is pretty much the last time I ever wanted to use Poser.
Okay, here's the deal. I was chatting with Molly and we were exchanging ideas for a picture. She wanted me to do something involving a meditating monk... sitting position and all. After reading that description I immediately thought of that famous Vietnam picture of the monk who lit himself on fire. Well, since there was already a picture of that... I'd have to create my own version using Poser.
Poser, like I've stated before, is a piece of shit. If you can imagine trying to manipulate fine points of a 3d model with a 2d interface, then you can fathom why I hate this program. It's bad enough that the controls don't make any sense, but it gets worse when you know what you want to do and you have to fight with the program to do it. The very worst part of it is that the flat shaded textures of the model have no collision detection. So parts, no matter how "normally" posed, well cut into each other making the whole damn thing look shitty when you run your final render. I spent hours trying to get the position of the feet just right... but it just would not work. Essentially what I ended up with was a figure who's feet were sticking out of the top of his thighs. That's just not right, so that's why you can't see the lower portion of the figure. Luckily the fire I pasted on top worked out just perfectly.
The face of the figure is actually a real photograph taken of a japanese burn victim. The original picture (which I do not have) shows that the person was so badly burned that they had a weird troll/orc like apperance. It's quite disturbing, so naturally I had to incorporate it into one of my pictures. The background is a standard beksinski paitning.
Okay, here's the deal. I was chatting with Molly and we were exchanging ideas for a picture. She wanted me to do something involving a meditating monk... sitting position and all. After reading that description I immediately thought of that famous Vietnam picture of the monk who lit himself on fire. Well, since there was already a picture of that... I'd have to create my own version using Poser.
Poser, like I've stated before, is a piece of shit. If you can imagine trying to manipulate fine points of a 3d model with a 2d interface, then you can fathom why I hate this program. It's bad enough that the controls don't make any sense, but it gets worse when you know what you want to do and you have to fight with the program to do it. The very worst part of it is that the flat shaded textures of the model have no collision detection. So parts, no matter how "normally" posed, well cut into each other making the whole damn thing look shitty when you run your final render. I spent hours trying to get the position of the feet just right... but it just would not work. Essentially what I ended up with was a figure who's feet were sticking out of the top of his thighs. That's just not right, so that's why you can't see the lower portion of the figure. Luckily the fire I pasted on top worked out just perfectly.
The face of the figure is actually a real photograph taken of a japanese burn victim. The original picture (which I do not have) shows that the person was so badly burned that they had a weird troll/orc like apperance. It's quite disturbing, so naturally I had to incorporate it into one of my pictures. The background is a standard beksinski paitning.
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Well, it was inevitable. Sooner or later I'd have to talk about this picture.
The red-head in that picture is Molly, the blonde is her (and my) friend, Allie. Molly and I have known each other for many years and are very close. Unfortunately the one word that can be used to describe the relationship we have is, "complicated." I need not go into details since the people who are actually reading this blog already know the whole story. Regardless of how things have turned out through the years, I still care a lot about her, and I hope she does the same for me.
SO, after a nice 2 year period of us not speaking to each other, things changed and it lead to a very fun get-together in San Diego a year ago. Since then Molly and I have kept in touch and every now and then I try to a picture of hers and doozy it up for her. First I want to say, this is odd. Why? Because photoshopping one of your romantic interests into a zombie brings up uneasy feelings, especially when you have to do an extensive amount of clone stamping to remove clothing (Clothing of course, gets in the way of laying down textures). It's much easier to photoshop someone you don't know or have had any "real" contact with into a zombie. Oh well... here I go.
This one was pretty simple, and looking back now of course it doesn't look all that great. Obvious I could've used higher resolution textures for the face and a little beefing up of the blood coming out of the eyes and mouth. Now, onto the "big" one.
As you can see, I took the original photo up there and tried to do something a little "big" with it. This was my first "big" project. Back in January, Allie was visiting Molly out in New York, so Molly asked me if I could photoshop something of them together. It took me 5 tries to get this picture to look as it does now. Each time I was avoiding what I knew was the only way to do the picture. Once again, clothes get in the way... so I had to either spend a ton of time clone stamping them out or I would reconstruct the bodies in the god awful program that is Poser. Well, I remade the bodies in Poser and tried to match the figures up the best I could with the original photograph. Next I cut and pasted the original faces on the poser bodies and tried to match them up just right. Next was to add detail, which in this case came from Giger and screen shots of Evil Dead 2. Add a little vivisection photo from Anatomica Encyclopedia and WAH LAH! Impressive shit that everyone loves.
The red-head in that picture is Molly, the blonde is her (and my) friend, Allie. Molly and I have known each other for many years and are very close. Unfortunately the one word that can be used to describe the relationship we have is, "complicated." I need not go into details since the people who are actually reading this blog already know the whole story. Regardless of how things have turned out through the years, I still care a lot about her, and I hope she does the same for me.
SO, after a nice 2 year period of us not speaking to each other, things changed and it lead to a very fun get-together in San Diego a year ago. Since then Molly and I have kept in touch and every now and then I try to a picture of hers and doozy it up for her. First I want to say, this is odd. Why? Because photoshopping one of your romantic interests into a zombie brings up uneasy feelings, especially when you have to do an extensive amount of clone stamping to remove clothing (Clothing of course, gets in the way of laying down textures). It's much easier to photoshop someone you don't know or have had any "real" contact with into a zombie. Oh well... here I go.
This one was pretty simple, and looking back now of course it doesn't look all that great. Obvious I could've used higher resolution textures for the face and a little beefing up of the blood coming out of the eyes and mouth. Now, onto the "big" one.
As you can see, I took the original photo up there and tried to do something a little "big" with it. This was my first "big" project. Back in January, Allie was visiting Molly out in New York, so Molly asked me if I could photoshop something of them together. It took me 5 tries to get this picture to look as it does now. Each time I was avoiding what I knew was the only way to do the picture. Once again, clothes get in the way... so I had to either spend a ton of time clone stamping them out or I would reconstruct the bodies in the god awful program that is Poser. Well, I remade the bodies in Poser and tried to match the figures up the best I could with the original photograph. Next I cut and pasted the original faces on the poser bodies and tried to match them up just right. Next was to add detail, which in this case came from Giger and screen shots of Evil Dead 2. Add a little vivisection photo from Anatomica Encyclopedia and WAH LAH! Impressive shit that everyone loves.
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Okay, if my memory serves me right, this should be the last "Kirbson" picture.
If I can find the original source image, I'll put it up, but for now here it is. At first I thought that this was my least favorite of the series, but now looking at it again I think I like it. I was initially dissapointed with it considering the great number of photoshop filters I rand to make it look good. Basically I just took scans of body parts from Anatomica Encylcopedia and pasted it over the girl's figure. After that it was just a lot of color adjustment, accented edges brush filtering, and some zoom blurring. The picture is a little small due to me using that 15 inch LCD screen at the time, but hey... it looks good. That's it for tonight folks, have a wonderful tomorrow.
If I can find the original source image, I'll put it up, but for now here it is. At first I thought that this was my least favorite of the series, but now looking at it again I think I like it. I was initially dissapointed with it considering the great number of photoshop filters I rand to make it look good. Basically I just took scans of body parts from Anatomica Encylcopedia and pasted it over the girl's figure. After that it was just a lot of color adjustment, accented edges brush filtering, and some zoom blurring. The picture is a little small due to me using that 15 inch LCD screen at the time, but hey... it looks good. That's it for tonight folks, have a wonderful tomorrow.
Thursday, September 11, 2003
Okay, today I'm going to almost finish up with the "Kirbson" set. I think there's one more after this
Now this picture just pissed me off to no end. When I saw it, I said to myself "It's your job to make this woman ugly." Seriously, doesn't looking at that picture make you mad? Sure she's a very attractive girl, but with a picture like that... it's almost mocking whoever views it. It's hard to explain, but just on some primal level it made me angry. So I made this.
Ahhh that's better. When I showed this picture to the young lady, she was quite impressed and said it was the best one I ever did. It's somewhat smaller because at the time I was using a 15 inch flat panel monitor which had a maximum resolution of 1024x768. Not enough room to work with at that resolution so I cropped it down a bit. The skin texture was a beksinski painting, some of the bones and other features came from scans out of Encylcopedia Anatomica, but most of it was done by me taking the burn tool in photoshop and going over the face like an angry child with a black crayon.
Now this picture just pissed me off to no end. When I saw it, I said to myself "It's your job to make this woman ugly." Seriously, doesn't looking at that picture make you mad? Sure she's a very attractive girl, but with a picture like that... it's almost mocking whoever views it. It's hard to explain, but just on some primal level it made me angry. So I made this.
Ahhh that's better. When I showed this picture to the young lady, she was quite impressed and said it was the best one I ever did. It's somewhat smaller because at the time I was using a 15 inch flat panel monitor which had a maximum resolution of 1024x768. Not enough room to work with at that resolution so I cropped it down a bit. The skin texture was a beksinski painting, some of the bones and other features came from scans out of Encylcopedia Anatomica, but most of it was done by me taking the burn tool in photoshop and going over the face like an angry child with a black crayon.
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
The adventures of little miss "Kirbson" continues. Remember I have not met this person... nor do I even know her first name. She just takes lots of pictures and posts them on a message board for attention.
The first picture you can see that I was mixing giger textures with T-800 endoskeleton parts. In the second picture I wanted to go fo ra more subtle look. I used pictures of ice and gravel for the general texture. To get that bruising effect on the top left area, I incorporated a screen cap of the basement monster in Evil Dead 2 and adjusted the colors. It turned out rather well, didn't it?
The first picture you can see that I was mixing giger textures with T-800 endoskeleton parts. In the second picture I wanted to go fo ra more subtle look. I used pictures of ice and gravel for the general texture. To get that bruising effect on the top left area, I incorporated a screen cap of the basement monster in Evil Dead 2 and adjusted the colors. It turned out rather well, didn't it?
Sunday, September 07, 2003
Okay, here we go again!
This time I matched up the original with the photoshop. FYAD stands for "Fuck You and Die." A very popular forum at SomthingAwful.com Yet again I look back on my older work and feel dissapointed. I remember this looking so cool when I made it back in January. I had just purchased my wacom tablet and was going wild with it. The eviscerated part of her body is actually a scan from Leonardo Da Vinci book I've got lying about showing some of his sketches of human anotomy. The background is a beksinski painting, and that giant floating head in the sea of blood came from watching too much of End of Evangelion. That head belongs to a real dead woman, it's a common picture found on those ultra gorey websites like consumption junction and rotten.com Now that I've severely grossed you all out, there is one more thing you must do.
This time I matched up the original with the photoshop. FYAD stands for "Fuck You and Die." A very popular forum at SomthingAwful.com Yet again I look back on my older work and feel dissapointed. I remember this looking so cool when I made it back in January. I had just purchased my wacom tablet and was going wild with it. The eviscerated part of her body is actually a scan from Leonardo Da Vinci book I've got lying about showing some of his sketches of human anotomy. The background is a beksinski painting, and that giant floating head in the sea of blood came from watching too much of End of Evangelion. That head belongs to a real dead woman, it's a common picture found on those ultra gorey websites like consumption junction and rotten.com Now that I've severely grossed you all out, there is one more thing you must do.
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
WHO PUT THIS SHIT HERE?
Seriously, no one told me I had a blog... and by having one I'd have to put shit on it. Psh, this internet business isn't what's cracked up to be. People showing up on contact lists unannounced... people posting weird zombie pictures, ALL WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! Man it's a mad house in this internet. Alright... here's something.
Here I decided to start ripping off Mr. Beksinski and took the picture of some rather attractive but oddly camwhorish girl to mess around with. This was the result. A lot of clone stamping, zoom blurring, and noise filtering. It's cool to look at but at the same time dissapointing in my eyes. I don't like filters and here's a time when I was using nothing but because I lacked the necessary skills to do better. I have a whole ton of these pictures that use the same girl as source material. The great thing about camwhores, is that they always take lots and lots of pictures.
Before I had a long winded description of what happened to me today. It was boring so now...
BABA CHUMP!
Seriously, no one told me I had a blog... and by having one I'd have to put shit on it. Psh, this internet business isn't what's cracked up to be. People showing up on contact lists unannounced... people posting weird zombie pictures, ALL WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! Man it's a mad house in this internet. Alright... here's something.
Here I decided to start ripping off Mr. Beksinski and took the picture of some rather attractive but oddly camwhorish girl to mess around with. This was the result. A lot of clone stamping, zoom blurring, and noise filtering. It's cool to look at but at the same time dissapointing in my eyes. I don't like filters and here's a time when I was using nothing but because I lacked the necessary skills to do better. I have a whole ton of these pictures that use the same girl as source material. The great thing about camwhores, is that they always take lots and lots of pictures.
Before I had a long winded description of what happened to me today. It was boring so now...
BABA CHUMP!
Monday, September 01, 2003
VOLLEYBALL CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM
No it wasn't my shoulder, it was this.
That's the symbol I've been wearing around my neck since December of 1998. It means "monkey" Being born in 1980 labels me as a monkey, but that's not why I wore it around my neck all the time, I did so because it was given to me by Molly while we were on our first official "date." It's just some little trinket, but it's one of the very few things that I've had sentimental attachment with. Most everything else I own can easily be replaced, but that can't be. Since I received it, Molly and I have been friends, not friends, more then friends, and all sorts of complications but having that necklace always helped me remember a time when things between us were nothing but good. So yeah, I lost it while playing volley ball, took it off in a grass field late at night and stuffed it into my shoes before playing. When I left, I took everything out of the shoes but forgot the necklace. It just makes me sad of course, it's gone and I can never get it back. The necklace in a way is similar to the person who gave it to me. I'll let Boffo, the clown of despair show you all how I feel right now.
No it wasn't my shoulder, it was this.
That's the symbol I've been wearing around my neck since December of 1998. It means "monkey" Being born in 1980 labels me as a monkey, but that's not why I wore it around my neck all the time, I did so because it was given to me by Molly while we were on our first official "date." It's just some little trinket, but it's one of the very few things that I've had sentimental attachment with. Most everything else I own can easily be replaced, but that can't be. Since I received it, Molly and I have been friends, not friends, more then friends, and all sorts of complications but having that necklace always helped me remember a time when things between us were nothing but good. So yeah, I lost it while playing volley ball, took it off in a grass field late at night and stuffed it into my shoes before playing. When I left, I took everything out of the shoes but forgot the necklace. It just makes me sad of course, it's gone and I can never get it back. The necklace in a way is similar to the person who gave it to me. I'll let Boffo, the clown of despair show you all how I feel right now.
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