You have to wonder if, at some point, the artist working on this actually realized what was happening and yet carried on regardless.
Foreshortening can be a tricky thing to get right. One minute your image is bursting out of the frame, the next you seem to have assembled a cast of deformed mutants. The strange thing is that the picture above is in order, from right to left: OK; a bit dodgy; a lot dodgy; freakish.
Here's a close-up of the last one. The shadow doesn't really help either.
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Fanta: You Really Don't Wanta
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She also appears to have the worlds shortest neck.
Orange girl is NOT okay. It looks like her elbow is coming out of her shoulder!
do NOT diss on purple!
Where is the purple one looking at?
The fact that they look like they're made out of cardboard doesn't help things.
Take a look at that arm
That arm is even worse than the rhyming attempt.
Why have the cameltoes been removed? Those might have been the only redeeming aspects of this image.
Someone also added white to their fingernails and some of those seams aren't original to the clothes. The whole thing is freaky.
Purple seems to succinctly summarise everything this blog is about. Also, I'm pretty sure she used to be a dude.
i second ~angela~. Look at the hand holding the bottle!
ALL of their arms are freaky!! Not ONE of them is normal..
Could someone also create wigdisasters.blogspot.com and cross post this.
How come you add a watermark to these pictures? Are you trying to make it yours? It's one thing if you've modified the picture or something, but all you've done here is copy the picture!
I'm pretty sure it's watermarked now because of the idiot at http://photoshopd.blogspot.com/
There were only a few flipper babies!
I think your observation about the whole "order" of the "deformities" is dead on....and yes, frightening. Not to mention the commercials for Fanta were a pain in the ass to watch and listen to anyway.
New Cherry Thalidomide Fanta
I a more shocked how much the second from the right, let's call her lila, looks a lot like a non-crack-addict-yet-the-same-ugly-face version of Amy Winehouse...
*eyes bleed*
Damn... what people have against taking actual pictures these days?
This is why thalidomide is outlawed in soft drinks.
Next time, make sure the width of the photo matches the planned width of the poster, so you don't have to perform elective bone surgery on the the models to make them fit.
Not pictured: Fanta Green, the one made of people.
Does anyone else think that Purple's face looks like it's made up of several photos? Her mouth is off to the side and her eyes look vacant :|
These are the kind of f*ck ups we like to see here, better than the reflections and "stuff that just looks weird". Keep it up!
Damn, I'm not the first commenter to mention thalidomide.
That red 'girl' is de one who really freaks me out... look at her right arm. YECH!
I strongly believe that this blog does a great service to the community...
I think the client wanted all the bottles to look exactly the same size (they think the customers don't know about perspective?). And perhaps the girl on the left was smaller than the other girls so the bottle looked bigger in her hand, when they scaled her up to match the size of the other girls. So they scaled down the bottle with her arm included.
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!
Her arm looks like it belongs to the butler played by Chris Eliott from the Scary Movie franchise.
exactly how is her arm a photoshop disaster? it is an unfortunate camera angle that fanta wanted to use. I think you confuse bad art direction with bad photoshop. fact is, the product in their hand was replaced, but those are all single shots of the girls. they aren't arms from other shots put on or different heads added. it was bad photography the client wanted to use combined with the stupid "plastic look" of the girls they wanted. I was at the photo shoot, so I know.
At least the first troll comment this time is an obvious lie.
please explain which part was troll like or a lie?
This might be one of my new favorites.
fanta.com is full of more funny ones. Not this bad, but still sloppy.
Look at the way they advertise:
http://www.fanta.com/askmom.jsp
It's shocking.
I sadly have to agree that odds are the arm is more bad camera angle then bad photoshop.
But surprised no one noticed that all the oranges on the bottom of the ad are the same exact orange. Just resized and flipped around.
"orange girl : ok"... ? look at her right hand, it's huuuuge :D !
oh, man. And I used to like Fanta, too.
Has nobody noticed that purple girls head looks a barbie dolls head... waaaayyy to plastic
The clipping isn't the best either...but you think someone would notice and stop the arm from happening...
Orange reminds me of Nemo, with that deformed right arm...
orange girl/man has two-toned fingers onher left hand. the color correction of the shorts is on top of her fingers. don't get me started on the fruit. what'd they have … just one orange to work with?
purple girl's left arm is mutant
A bad camera angle *contributed* to this abortion of nature, but I don't see how anyone can try and deny that this is a photoshop disaster. The person who made this has no concept of perception. Those bottles were badly replaced into this image, and were all made to be the same size when they shouldn't appear the same size. This, in combination with the weird way they were cut and pasted on to the background makes them look like pieces of cardboard.
Not to mention their "french manicures" are terrible beyond belief.
there's no way the foreshortening is only bad camera angles. the photography may have started the project off on the wrong foot but i will never be convinced that there wasn't manipulation to further exaggerate the perspective that resulted in this true disaster. i can forgive the stylistic "flat cardboardy look" choices, but those creepy and impossible arms are unforgivable.
Poor girls. Look what Fanta does to you...
What?!? There are people here who think that poor girl's elbow really does start in her armpit? Her bicep is completely gone! There's no camera angle that can make that happen.
I'm the bad photoshop bandwagon. Jump on me!
Seriously, this images does not belong here. Bad photo direction. That's it. I can't stand how readily some of you leap to accusations.
What?!? There are people here who think that poor girl's elbow really does start in her armpit? Her bicep is completely gone! There's no camera angle that can make that happen.
May 6, 2008 3:54 PM
You have restored my faith in anonymous - thank you.
That is the single worst photoshop disaster I've ever laid eyes on. Ha ha ha!
Nice find!
Cool Site!
No I do NOT wanta fanta the fantanas!!!!!
Also, Orange's belly button seems to be placed way too high.
Haha, this has to be the best PsD yet.
look at the girl in orange. wtf is up with her face?!
wtf is up with the purple girls face also? its like, freaky. urgh, gross. xox
OMG unbelieveable what photoshop can do - in reality it's the same girl four times.
Also, Orange's belly button seems to be placed way too high.
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she could have a long waist, like me o-o
they tried to make me go to rehab....
nice arm
Orange is definitely not okay...she is missing half of her pinky. Art direction has nothing to do with that, it is bad ps.
Unless the poor girl actually only has half a pinky finger.
"Purple seems to succinctly summarise everything this blog is about. Also, I'm pretty sure she used to be a dude."
Hey, are you dissing with my brother?
Oh my goodness! red girl is freaking scary!
You shouldn't make fun of Thiladomide models!
ok yeh wtf is wit purple right arm
Anyone think it's wrong that sperm-like stems from the cherries are threatening the baby-making areas of two of the women?
Yellow girl looks like she dislocated her neck, too. Ouch?
what color is the best? i love the purple one.
What this looks like is someones head put on another body. This may have been done to switch out a previous girl for payment reasons. If this was the case then that would explain the arm.
It's not even a womans arm, it's a mans arm.
haha. three of my closest friends and myself are going to be the Fantanas for Halloween, I'm going as the red one. I don't think i could handle it anymore. hahaha.
add a shadow to a cutted out figure makes it look like a shaped print floating near a wall. I had a boss who told me to do this to get "air", bad tip...it makes absolutly the opposite. Terrific image. Authentic Photoshop Disaster.
The arm waird look is a perceptual distortion caused by the shadow. That makes the hand look as near to the orange surface as the head.
The photo is not an awsome shot, of course, but I think that the original picture has no aberration feel.
Another disgrace ib this work: the orange background that is no longer deep when you put shadows over it.
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