So the story is about how The Spirit fights this one-legged woman who has the power to make her arm look like some kind of flipper. Sounds great.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Spirit: Eva Mendes Is Strangely Deformed
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Your blog is awesome and so much fun to read! Keep up the great work. :o)
Couldn't the leg just be behind the other one? Sure the photo sucks then :P But it would be possible I guess?
That arm looks like it might belong to her siamese twin.
I KNEW IT! i was gonna send this in..but then i was like NAH
@willem
Yes you're right..
Since her one hand's like this ..
even her leg could be some thing like that.. heavily deformed..
so that it can fit in right behind the left leg :)
This only looks strange because the resolution of the image is terrible.
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/04/spirit_poster_eva_mendes_is_sa.php
go there and take a look, nothing looks strange about her hand at all, its in mid-move in a swooping way.
i just dont see how this is a big deal, heh.
I think you all missed something bigger.
Try this at home kiddies, hold your arm out the same way as her and have your hand the same way as hers. now try and have your thumb pointing upwards like hers hahaha
Quite odd the palm of her left hand is facing backwards and her thumb is pointing upwards.
Actually, josh.hofer !!!, the high resolution image looks better on that front, but now the hand simply looks like a hand at the fetal stage of development with the thumb appearing to be a bud and the ring and little fingers forming an odd structure (papawindy thinks it's the thumb).
And it still doesn't correct the fact that her posture is impossible if she has two normal legs
I am so glad to see this blog. I work for an imaging company and I love to see this kind of stuff. I will be a regular visitor to this blog!
amazing they made these mistakes, especially since the director made his living drawing comics for twenty five years...
Actually, you are missing something bigger here. See those lips??? Don't tell me they are permanently in fixed position like this!!?
But above all, why her name resembles name of a font??
I agree with some of the PS mistakes and mess ups on this blog... but dang, I really think you guys are pushing perfection on this image!
Oh well, no big deal.
Well, From the look of it, she's missing a leg, a right arm, and has a deformed limb.
Looks like she just might be Martin Deschamps's twin!
This may be a case of a horrible photographer rather than horrible photoshop. I'm sure the background was comped in, but the foreshortening in the hand really should have been caught at the camera. Bad photographer + Worse photoshop artist = multi million dollar movie poster. I"m in the wrong business apparently
This blog slowly gets retarded - nothing wrong about her arm. And resolution still sucks.
Her palm should be facing OUT, with her thumb up.
@Ingo - so sorry about your amr than. This is right hand on left arm, you have to belive me: I have checked with my roommate and ours left-hand thumbs are facing down. Sorry, it's 2:1 :)
I'd so see a movie with a one legged flipper lady...
i don't think this looks deformed at all. i'm not really understanding what you're seeing here.
There's nothing wrong with her. It's a) the resolution and contrast of the image and, more importantly b) more jump-the-gun, misguided, quasi-solipsistic dunderheads who think it's big and clever to poke fun at the slightest error that someone might be capable of making the odd slip-up within a ludicrously tight deadline; this never, ever could happen to them, of course, because they are the be-all and end-all of creative talent and have obviously just had their noses put out of joint because they were not consulted and bowed to before any major image was put out.
By the way, isn't her mole supposed to be R142,G93,B44? Sigh.
Chromatically Challenged- maybe next time you can convince the client to give you more time? Just hold that up as an example.
By the way, reversing a comped hand so the thumb is facing the wrong way is not usually considered a "minor" mistake caused by a fast approaching deadline. It's considered a heavy screwup when done by someone that is supposed to be aprofessional and know better.
If you look a little closer, the hand is not reversed. The pose suggests a motion similar to pulling aside a curtain: the thumb is the lowest, pointing straight toward the viewer, it's the angle of the rest of the fingers that makes it look wrong. The top-most digit is actually the little finger pointing upward - either that or she has one hugely oversized finger, separated from the rest.
Chromatically Challenged:
SHE'S ONLY GOT FOUR FINGERS ON HER HAND. Look at the hi-res picture. There's FOUR fingers there. And, assuming that bottom one is her thumb, that means her pinky has been broken at the joint in an upward angle (or her ring finger, if the pinky was the one that was amputated).
Also, her right leg disappeared. Look at how her bodysuit and muscles are arranged around her midsection. Her right leg should be pointed STRAIGHT DOWN, as I'm sure it was in the actual photograph, but it got lost somewhere in Photoshopping.
Definitely a disaster. Chromatically Challenged, you should change your name to "Visually Challenged."
Go to the large size image.
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/image.php?path=/2008/04/21/Spirit_Eva_Comicon_Print01.jpg
There's five fingers and the hand is pointing the right way.
Take a look. It's really only foreshortening. Honest.
Looking at the hi-res version there is nothing wrong with this picture.
The left arm is rotating so that the palm is facing back. The thumb is parallel with the other fingers and pointing straight at the camera.
As for a missing leg....get real.
A comic legend like Frank Miller is never going to let images with errors in them go out with his name on them.
Wade: Tell Frank that someone's taking his name in vain. I might give you the hand, though at best it's awkward as hell, but unless the character is The Amazing PogoStick Girl, that missing leg says, "Error!"
Oh come on guys! You're just like Fox Mulder: "I want to believe! - No, I really want it...!"
There is absolutely nothing wrong with her hand or her leg. Her palm points outward, her thumb goes down. Everybody can do that! You don't have to, but you can. The arm's not deformed, it's just perspective. And yes, probably they removed part of that other leg to give it a more dramatic look (or to save it from looking like one fat leg, haha) but that's no a big deal. At least to me.
It might be a strange pose, but I can't see anything technically wrong with this picture. I thought this blog was about chimps in front of computers calling themselves photoshop pros and not photographers with questionable taste...
So please give us real bad comps again!
8-)
arroyodorado, that's precisely what's happened to this site; it wants to be the Photoshop equivalent of the Failblog but ends up being a failure itself because there really is some kind of quality control out there, so really bad compositions are few and far between. So people start looking for problems, rather than submitting the glaringly obvious - and even then it's often intentional; for the sake of making a point. It seems a lot of the comments here are made by people who have no idea of the use of exaggeration or hyper-reality to put across a concept. Possibly the same sort who criticise bullet strikes in films because "real bullets wouldn't spark, they're made of lead, which is non-ferrous".
I'd rather see one really bad example of an image a month than a continuous deluge of vaguely noticeable watermarks, slightly questionable body parts but more importantly, misguided observations. Hell, why bother with the images at all? We could all just spout drivel-bound comments and spend the day arguing over them.
Great blog and yes interesting stuff to read!
I disagree with you (not about this image - it really is just an awkward pose, not a photoshop error).
But I don't think everyone looking for tiny faults on the blog, I can only spot one or two which I believe are erroneous submissions, the vast majority are just horrible photoshop jobs - just look at the ones from the daily mail :)
got no problem with the hand myself (things at that dramatic a perspective look weird as hell regardless) but are people here really coming up with excuses for cutting her leg off?
i don't blame the photoshopper themselves for this, but the stupid demands of whom ever is commissioning this image. there was probably a rough version of this which was perfectly good, but then someone further up the chain decided that right leg was "a distraction" or made to composition "too busy" and had the thing removed without regard for how stupid it would then look.
moron.
I would say that a lot of the images like those from the Daily Mail and FHM are not necessarily Photoshop errors; they could just as easily be a mistake at the prepress/printing end: if the artist (especially if they are freelance) submits a composite in its layered form instead of flattening it, the layer order/visibility can be messed up, especially when going between platforms and versions.
That's not an excuse, of course: it should be picked up before it goes to press but it's also unfair to put it down to poor compositing.
that was terrible. how could they not successfully hide that in photoshop.
If the image at least caused this much confusion about if the hand was correct or not, then I think that the image was unsuccessful. I don't need to have to look at a high-res version to see if the hand is correct, It should already look fine. The foreshortnening is very odd looking, but in the end it either looks right, or looks odd.
I agree with Anon @ 6:43 AM, if the image looks funny, it doesn't have the right effect on its target audience, be it for nitpicky reasons or not.
Yeh, you've got to look at the picture properly to see that her hand is the other way around. It's not actually photoshopped, just a bad angle and the glove is a bad material which makes it hard to tell that her hand is facing the opposite way. All black and shiny confuses the eyes and mind. :)
Her thumb IS on the bottom, guys. nothing wrong with her hand, it's the shitty camera angle that makes it look screwed up. we don't need hi-res to see it (if we have anywhere near normal vision), but the photographer should have caught that it looked weird as hell.
can't say much about the leg, though, since i never saw the movie, and i don't know what she was doing or how she was moving in this scene.
A stump for an arm was never going to work. Hilarious!
The arm is foreshortened, and yes, the thumb is on the bottom.
As for...
"[I]t still doesn't correct the fact that her posture is impossible if she has two normal legs..."
She can't stand still that way, true, but it's not impossible if she's moving.
Sorry, PSD, I think I have to give you a FAIL on this one. So-so photo, but not a bad Photo_shop_.
Arm ... flipper ... she's still super hot.
It looks terrible. I mean you can overlook the hand, cause you won't notice it. But I mean the legs, those are clearly obvious.
because they know everyone is looking at her boobs..
Good Job! :)
There aren't any photoshop errors on this picture. I guess none of you can turn your thumb down the way that she did. Try this stand up out of your chairs just once and get in front of a mirror. Now stick your arms out squat and turn to the left. Her leg might have been shaved off, but is to show off her curves.
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