My Photoshop Avatar/Na'Vi Faces (56k warning)

[Woodsprite]

Before I post I just wanna say that this topic is about ME! Because this topic kind of got hijacked by others who wanted to show their Avatarizations. So please, make your own topic about your own avatarizations and leave this topic to the soul purpose of me being a pompous ass who wants to show off his own work only, and get comments about it (both negative and positive comments are welcome).



ANYWAY, ever since I started avatarizing in early January I've gotten to the point where I don't think I can improve much on it anymore, so I'm stopping after all the requests I have piled up on me are done. So don't ask me to do any avatarizations. I have too much work as it is, and I'm kind of tired of doing it regularly.

Another thing, I just wanna say I'm so glad that whoever I call "friend" here is a friend because they like me. Because when I became a member of AF, the primary reason for all the friend requests I got was either because they liked my avatarizations, or because I did an avatarization for them. So thanks to all for a fresh start on ToS without any of the commercial reasons for being a friend to people.

Here are all the avatarizations I've made since early January. I'll post more each time I finish a request I got from before.

On a side-note, all these were done with Photoshop Elements 7, so all you big-shots who say CS4 is the bomb can take a gander at these and be amazed at what old-school can do. If anyone wants originals just send me a PM.


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Brendan Fraser's Avatar

This was my first attempt on photoshop elements 7 at a celebrity avatar... Incredibly primitive, but you always have to start somewhere. Took about 3-4 work hours.

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Tom Cruise's Avatar

This is my second attempt at a celebrity avatar. Still a bit primitive; many problems with blending, the ears are way too low, the nose is completely wrong, and I didn't fully understand a lot of what went on on an avatar face, especially concerning the stripes. Took about 7-8 total work hours.

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YeahGetSome's Avatar

This is my third attempt. Started understanding stripe-placement and shading (still had more to learn later on, though). Bioluminescent spot-placement is still unknown to me, as I had only watched "Avatar" a grand total of 2 times by then and did what I could from memory (I've seen it 9 times now). The eye blending is still off, but the nose is spot-on correct: this was my best job at manipulating the nose to look Na'vi compared to all other avatarizations.

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TORUK-MAKTO's (Lou's) Avatar

I'm not particularly proud of this one since the photo was too small to work with, and came out blurry and bad-looking. Not my best effort, but the requestor loved it, however, and showed it to everyone. He even put it as his avatar, and is the person who has thanked me the most about my work, and credits me everytime he shows it somewhere (even on other forums). By far the nicest man I've ever done an avatarization for.

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Michelle Rodriguez's Avatar

Imagining if Trudy had joined the Avatar program... Truly a sad thing that she died.

Anyway, groundbreaking work for me, as I learned how to manipulate the nose from a side angle, as well as doing all other work at a side angle. Still not the best, much is still to be learned, but it's like the sfx of Star Wars: a lot to be learned, but still game-changing.

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