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quote:Originally posted by Novelty: Today I went to 4 furniture stores hunting for furniture. What did I end up buying?
a. Three Bookcases b. A Queen-sized bed c. Chest of drawers d. Divan e. A nice big couch f. A footstool g. Some Garden Furniture and a garden gnome h. A nightstand i. A pair of coffee tables j. A coat rack k. Two tall chairs l. A La-Z boy recliner
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And Exnihil has it on his first guess! Your question next, Mr. Ex-marine.
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OK, I'm currently gearing up to run another Survivor game here on Legion World, one of my favorite parts of which is all the Photoshop work. In the first season, though, I had a dickens of a time getting one of the contestants represented in a fashion that I was satified with. Of the Survivor: Marzal contestants, who gave my limited Photoshop skills the greatest difficulty:
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Language Arts Lad, while requiring a bit of work, wasn't actually all that difficult. He uses a young boy swimming with a Spider Man inner tube as his avatar, so it was just a matter of pulling a reasonably similar curly haired moppet from a stock photo library, and piecing together the inner tube from different ads. I was actually pretty pleased with how he came out.
For Nov, most of the work was already done for me. At the time, he was using Monkey-Eater Lad's photomanip of Cosmic Boy as an avatar which used actor Matt Long as a base. Once I ID'ed the actor, it was just a matter of pulling a variety of head shots, to capture the right expressions.
For Lardy (That should be Lard Lad, obviously, sorry for the typo) someone (I want to say Set?) had taken a real-life photo of Lardy and did a parody, giving him rockabilly hair and muttonchops. All I really had to do was crop out the background and plop him into whatever scene I needed. I was a little worried about how to use that in a Tribal Council scene, but it wound up being a moot point, as he won.
So if not those three, which contestant presented the Photoshop dilemma?
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Lance, who didn't use an avatar, was pretty much a blank slate as far as design. Being a child of the eighties, the first thing that occured to me when hearing the name,"Lance" was the pilot of the Blue Lion in "Voltron," so, that's what I went with. There is enough Voltron fan art on the web that I could just pick an image that looked the part and rip it off completely.
Quis, at the time, you were using Mr. Muggles from Heroes as your avatar and, no offense to any pomeraneans out there, but there are a wealth of images from which to choose of dogs who look exactly the same. Just a quick reduction of opacity around the edges and voila, I had a Quis.
The player who did not have a wealth of good images, however, was Gamara. He didn't have an avatar either so, given the name, I decided to give him one in the form of "Gamera" the giant Japanese turtle monster. It wasn't until we started playing that I realized the trouble with having a giant interacting with normal sized players - how do I do the scaling? Most images I found of Gamera were from the waist up, so I couldn't use those without putting him behind trees or something. The one image I did find of his full body was both too small and at too low a resolution to scale up much without it getting completely pixelated. In the end I wound up having to settle for that image, using just a small portion of it, scaling it up less than I would have liked, and applying a ton of blur effect to try to make it blend in. In the end, probably no one even noticed but I was never really satified with how he fit into group shots. C'est la vie.
Next question back to Novelty.
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