RENAMED: exp's next avatar... and RGV's current avatar

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:17 pm

surprised he [expony18] hasn't used it yet... and if he has... surprised that I have forgotten that he had.

(JJ in his days as a Hawaii QB.)

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:55 am

The silence is deafening. Next time I'll recommend he use Mujibur and Sirajul.

Letterman · Post by **Letterman** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:52 pm

ThadFilms wrote:Next time I'll recommend he use Mujibur and Sirajul.

Nice reference!

couch 'em · Post by **couch 'em** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 2:44 pm

Shut up and make a top 10 list.

RGV Pony · Post by **RGV Pony** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:19 pm

ThadFilms wrote:The silence is deafening. Next time I'll recommend he use Mujibur and Sirajul.

I highly recommend ThadFilms for the purpose of bringing avatar concepts to life.

ThadFilms, I've gotten many, many compliments on your handiwork of finishing the current avatar.

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:47 pm

Letterman wrote:
ThadFilms wrote:Next time I'll recommend he use Mujibur and Sirajul.
Nice reference!

Thanks Dave. Any word on what those guys are up to these days?

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:53 pm

RGV Pony wrote:
ThadFilms wrote:The silence is deafening. Next time I'll recommend he use Mujibur and Sirajul.

I highly recommend ThadFilms for the purpose of bringing avatar concepts to life.

ThadFilms, I've gotten many, many compliments on your handiwork of finishing the current avatar.

Thanks man, it was your idea... and it was fun.

And of course after your initial request you found the website that made my life so much easier.... obamicon.me .. I had spent a few hours thinking about just how to accomplish the feat with photoshop, got home to get started, and -- what do you know? -- you had already found that site. And away we go.

So I just had to find the right picture to start with. Something with him in a tie from below (it's a film making thing, photographing from below gives the subject the feel of power... from above submission). Plus the Obama litho is from below.

I settled on this one -

Then I went to obamicon.me and started to learn their controls, made a couple practice swings to learn the controls, blah blah blah...

Then I went into photoshop removed the background and looked up a copy of the original obama litho to get the placement of the head in the frame, plus the angle of the head tilt, didn't worry about being to exact, but just wanted to make it feel right...

Then back to photoshop first to attempt to put a mustang lapel pin on his jacket, but the resizing of the mustang never worked out well enough... then to get rid of the obamicon.me on the top of the "poster" because it just appeared as a blurring on the top of the avatar, as seen here in a slightly larger version of RGV's avatar...

After removing the text, shrunk the image down to 100 pixels across by however many in length that kept the aspect ratio... and there you have it.

RGV Pony · Post by **RGV Pony** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:10 pm

naturally, Thad's work made the avatar turn out great. What I'd really like to see is 5,000 people wearing t-shirts with the image on the Blvd this September.

Yes We Can, Mustang faithful!

that's great raplh · Post by **that's great raplh** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:52 pm

good work thad

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:04 pm

RGV Pony wrote:naturally, Thad's work made the avatar turn out great.

Thanks, you're too kind.

RGV Pony wrote:What I'd really like to see is 5,000 people wearing t-shirts with the image on the Blvd this September.

Yes We Can, Mustang faithful!

Now that would be cool... now if we could just get half of them to go into the stadium, and half of those to stay the whole game, then we might have something.

Oh and if we could beat a d-1a opponent, that would be nice too. Oh, yeah... HOPE... I almost forgot.

that's great raplh wrote:good work thad

Thanks, dood. And...

-THAT'S GREAT-

I thought twice, or even thrice about posting that RAPLH image, because (a) it's not great work, (b) I spent next to no time on it, and (c) I'd rather you not use it as your avatar. But whatever. I did it to be funny.

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:56 pm

I got angry with myself for admitting above that "I couldn't make the lapel pin size work", really I knew what I had to do, I just thought that after taking the time that it would take to do it right, that it wouldn't look as good as it should.

I took the time, just now, and it didn't. The mustang looked far too "placed" and not as natural as Obama's campaign button.

But once I shrunk the image to avatar size, it looked pretty darned good/okay. We'll see if RGV uses it. I just sent it over to him.

Of course, I could spend a good amount of time on it and get the lapel pin just right, but I am not sure it matters (for an avatar). Because then I would want to get the colors just right, and then I would want to add the "shading lines" like the orignal litho. Let's just say if RGV actually wants to go ahead with a tee shirt idea, then it's worth the time.... it'll have to be a much larger picture for that use.

(And I think the tee shirt idea is a pretty darned good one.)

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:21 pm

WASHINGTON (AFP) ├â┬ó├óΓÇÜ┬¼" The artist who created the iconic pop-art portrait which became the unofficial logo for Barack Obama's insurgent White House bid, has been arrested in Boston for defacing property with graffiti, US media reported.

Artist Shepard Fairey was arrested in Boston late Friday on warrants for defacing property with graffiti, the Boston Herald and other media outlets reported.

He is the creator of a popular red, white and blue poster, emblazoned with the legend "hope" "progress" or "change," showing the then-presidential candidate gazing off into the distance.

Fairey, 38, was taken into custody on his way to Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art where he was being honored with a solo exhibition of his work, called "Supply and Demand."

The street artist and political activist first became well known for his "Obey Giant" campaign of stickers, stencils, and posters of the early 1990s.

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:35 pm

No graffiti, no peace.

expony18 · Post by **expony18** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:48 pm

RGV Pony · Post by **RGV Pony** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:36 am

ThadFilms wrote:
(And I think the tee shirt idea is a pretty darned good one.)

then we better make it happen