Pixeloo's Untooned Art

 
There's this interesting blog of someone named pixeloo who has this even more interesting hobby of particular Photoshop montages: he uses snippets of photos from real people and blends them together so as to conceil the "cartoon-ness" of cartoon characters. His victims so far are Super Mario, Homer Simpson and Jessica Rabbit. There's even a video of the last one in the process. I'm excited to see more. [...]
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HOLY MOLY @ the video! (also down below)

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Jessica Rabbit Untooned
Saturday, April 19, 2008
So this ended up taking quite a bit longer than the last 2 even though I had expected a pretty easy time with it. I was able to complete the face relatively quickly but the real challenge was everything from her neck down. Trying to piece together parts of a body from multiple photos on top of a highly disproportionate body was pretty difficult. I considered only doing the face but I predicted pitchforks and torches if I chose that route. Creating the sequins took a bit of time too. I recently saw some camera effects in a music video I tried to duplicate too with the streaked brightness which I gave a shot here to add to the whole realism.

Anyway, I recorded the first hour of the creation of this one using Camtasia which includes all the face elements and the hair. It's not the complete process since this ended up taking a few hours longer than anticipated but I think it will help the curious get a general idea of how this was accomplished. It's sped up a bunch and so it only takes 10 minutes to view. I have to edit together some of the footage but once I get that done i'll post it here in a few days. (*UPDATE*: its posted here now)

Since Stewie Griffin was second in the poll, I'll work on him the next time I make an untoon.

*UPDATE* Hey all, I just wanted to clarify a bit. Perhaps "untoon" is the wrong word for this but the exercise here was to take the exact cartoon proportions of Jessica and create her with realistic lighting and textures. As was done with Homer and Mario. I think because of her smooth skin the cartooniness definitely still comes through a lot more than Homer. Here is a side by side of the source image I started with.

Thanks for all the comments and feedback so far!
- pixeloo : 11:00 AM
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Untooning Jessica Rabbit

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Storm Troopers in Benrath

 A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... I started this really cool project/idea but, as with most of my ideas, I quitted it before it even began. And now I have it: a super professional version of what I wanted to do eight to twelve years ago posted in an anonymous image forum (on Apr 16, 2008 · by dumpc0r3 -A27nEumf5o). Shame on me and my laziness ... [...]
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Watch in full resolution glory. Credit goes to Gavin77 who sent the link to me.

Urban Star Wars

"Sturmtruppen in Benrath"
These are the only pictures I ever did.

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Beamer Intermezzo

 Just a quick "Intermezzo": recently I've tried to test a bigger screen than my small 17" (or whatever) TV screen. So I connected my PC and later on my Wii to this little video beamer I call my own ... ;^)

This is the result. [...]
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As I'm neither in the possession of a white screen board nor of a white wall I used my window curtains. Funny.

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Weird Means of Transportation

 Incredible how much time you can waste just by watching funny pics in the iNet. This set dedicates its topic to "The World's Strangest Vehicles" - which contains all sorts of things: concept cars, homemade vehicular machineries, commercially produced cars and bikes, automobiles from movies and many more. In some cases you might wonder if there was a little help of Photoshop ... anyway, I just couldn't help myself and pick a few to show you.

[Warning: image overload] [...]
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* Akira: and there's even more.

Another set was dealing with funny accidents:

If you want more, there's more:
Vehicles Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Accidents Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
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