For a brief period, some Deviant Art people were recreating cartoon characters in surreal/realistic styles. I jumped right on board. This is Leela from Futurama by way of a stock photo and a lot of Photoshop work.
Month: May 2018
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The Mesmerist
Originally published in Amazing Stories WorldCon 2017 edition. Stock photo from Pixabay manipulated with digital tools.
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Vegas over Venus
The concept is an orbital casino world orbiting Venus. Why? For the alliteration of course. There’s money in alliteration! Only partly a polar image conversion this time. Lots of buildings added, a nice asteroid as well, and the force field is a soap bubble image. With lots and lots of color fiddling.
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Space Hab 14
Originally published in Amazing Stories WorldCon 2017 edition – based on stock NASA photos and a photo of the Pilgrim Explorer model kit which was then digitally manipulated.
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Space Hab 14 – Greyscale
Greyscale version of the color image originally published in Amazing Stories WorldCon 14 edition.
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Cruise to Mars
With a LOT of apologies to John Berkey. I always loved his spaceships and it suddenly hit me that they looked like someone reassembled cruise ships and put them in space. So I did that. Not totally happy with the result but a fun experiment nonetheless. You can guess how this was made by now.
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Real Cartman
Similar to Reela Leela this is a surreal/photorealistic version of Cartman from South Park. OMG was this a lot of Photoshop work and a bunch of stock photos. If memory serves me, the eyes are cueballs and the shoe soles are a radial tire tread.
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Amiga Beach
A gag poster/postcard from the times when Gateway Computers owned Amiga Computers. One of Gateway’s addresses was Dakota Dunes and the concept for a rural beach was born. Lots of stock photos, vintage photo, and a tiny bit of 3D.
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Amiga Museum
A different April Fools gag. Took a public domain vintage image of an Oracle computer room and colorized it and changed it to use Amiga computer iconography. The intention is to simulate old post card styles.
