Avatar Movie

Amazing!

Really, really cool.... where'd my photoshop go to? I wanna be cool too!

Is it cheating? It's an art form too right?

As long as you don't ad it to a facepaint competition and else say if it has been altered, when someone ask, I think a bit of photoshop is all right. Especially it is just around your painting, like the background.

Thanks LoneWolfe, but I'm a looong way from any competitions I think I use Photoshop for my graphic design business and fun. I deleted my brother's ex-wife out of a family photo for example...LOL

I like your work =)

Mandi, the photoshop work is so cool! Shannon, if you are into si-fi this is the movie to see. It's fast action, almost too fast in many areas.
A si-fi fan myself and wildlife artist, I finally saw it in IMAX yesterday, noticing so many more facinating things about the movie! :(Imax was booked, so I saw it four times previously on the other screen)
Since Jim Cameron is also an artist, the sea life influence in his designs for the foliage & critters was amazing, like the black smoker worms that became the red plants that hid when touched, obviously the Hammerhead rhino like critters & jellyfish like "seeds", but yesterday I noticed the "gills" on the cow hipped Dire Horses, and how the Na'vi white spots glow at night like the naturally illuminated plants and their skin colors are perfect camoflague.
His Banchees & Toruk annoyed me for some reason and found out why - they have not reptile, but fish mouthparts! Jim has an awesome imagination creating Pandora & inhabitants! This movie is a must on the big screen to get the full effect and, seeing it once on Imax was not enuf for me!
Susan

Funny about photoshop... My daughter yelled at me the other night when I had one of my fp pictures up in it.

"MOM! That's cheating!"

"Honey, I'm not changing my design... I didn't paint there and I'm removing my pimple."

To this day I've never told my husband this...but, since we met through a dating service, the first time he saw me was a photo I'd emailed him and I'd photoshopped my eyes to be just a bit brighter blue Hee hee.

I finally saw the movie yesterday SANS KIDS!!! It was 3 hours long but really took you away to another world!!! I am so excited to try and do my avatar avatar! and be cool like the rest of you!!!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!!

Have any of you seen the amazing pics of the Kim Hatch Connecticut convention Avatar Body Paint that Roberta Mandella and Z did?? Whoa!!! Best I have seen so far!!! Gotta find a pic of Alex H's now.

I saw a clip on how they made the movie, WOW. None of the characters were painted....They did have the dots on them though, and the "paint" that we see is actually on another medium that is laid over the actors, something like they do with green or blue back. I want to see more on that, because it was truly amazing.

Jenny

Know what you mean re the sealife - I was a biologist and did get a bit distracted I-D-ing all the deep sea creatures they had made into aliens. Think they just got a National Geographic underwater robot-made film and copied them!

Amazing though.

And yes any competition will disqualify any face/ body paint with photoshop in it although there are many that run concurrent photo/ photoshop comps like at the World's in Seeboden.

cat x

Kristal S. wrote: I tried two times, and came away looking more like a native smurf with an acne problem than avatar.

hahahah....you are too funny!

My first attempt......want to improve it. I chose the Netyri war paint face.

Here are some pictures (if I attach them correctly) of the Na'vi characters that Z and I created at the East Coast convention. Z spent nearly 4 hours sewing artificial hair onto clips and then braiding them into Alayna's hair (with some help from Sheryl Nance-Durst). My friend Kara Andrews sewed the "loin cloths" for both Alayna and Dustin. I also got some help from Pashur and Kat Beringer with the base coat. It really was a team effort. Soooo much fun. All of the jewelry you see was hand made by me (This was my first time making jewelry and I was really thrilled with how it turned out). For those who are curious, I created the wide prosthetic nose and covered the eyebrows on Alayna using Wolfe FX silicone. The ears on Alayna are Woochie latex "Large Vampire" ears that I trimmed and altered to appear more like the Avatar ears. I used a wooden bead for the "earring" and secured it all with Pros-Aide cream. The body painting makeup was Kryolan (light blue?) #587 for the base and a combination of Wolfe dark blue and Metallic blue for the stripes. Wolfe White mixed with a hint of blue for the dots and then I added a bit of MAC Reflects Pearl glitter to the dots just to make them "glow".

Anyway, I wanted to say that although the project took approximately 5 hours to complete the two characters, I barely noticed the time passing by because not only was this a fun project in and of itself, it was more fun because I was fortunate to do it with some of my closest friends.

More photos can be seen on my Facebook page.

Roberta