Grand Theft Auto IV is a new video game in which you score points by meeting sexually suggestive women and running them over repeatedly in a burning SUV while they tell you their life story and how they happen to have six fingers.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
GTA4: How Many Fingers?
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NIce Disaster, but GR8 (!!!) Game anyway.
Hehe, nice one ! ;)
Is that fixed on the posters that they've put out all over the town ? Gotta check that. :D
Good game, but LOL-worthy disaster right there. The sad part is, no one even seems to be able to find that particular prostitute in-game.
Years ago before computers and photoshop, there was a retoucher in London named Mike Mann. A promotional campaign showed photographs of him with six fingers. The caption read: Mike Mann had a hand in this. What made the concept work was that you did a double take before realizing he had an extra finger on his hand.
Fuck, I do that when Im doing cartoons, I think sometimes if I will do cartoons with 4 or 5 fingers, but that?
But there is 4 fingers and one thumb on her hand? WTF? No really a disaster. Am I missing the point?
http://flickr.com/photos/jonas/2148847545/
Four fingers on this photo...
That's *five* fingers and a thumb. Count the fingers at the top. There are four of them. Her index finger is emerging from behind the last one, so that makes a fifth. Plus a thumb.
But, really, it's not that unusual to have six fingers. Look up `polydactyly'.
It's a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
More like the painter made a goof and didn't continue the lollipop stick in front of the "index" finger - which if it did, then it'd make more sense as it's her thumb coming out behind the four fingers in front.
She looks like dexter's sister on the show dexter debra thats it.
Quick! Tell Mandy Pantinkin!
There was a "Secret Agent" toy called "The Sixfinger" when I was a little kid.
Maybe it's that.
Sometimes I wish I still had mine:
http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/Sixfinger.html
Ha ha... 5 fingers... you can't see the thumb.. so six.
Here's GTA's official wallpaper:
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/downloads/wallpapers/outdoor-lollipop_1680x1050.jpg
Sorry, guys, but I think this is just a very badly drawn hand.
Anonymous said...
Sorry, guys, but I think this is just a very badly drawn hand.
Well, duh! Yes! A badly-drawn hand with SIX fingers!
I think this proves the point along the lines of being an artist (which I am a professional artist), and it's simple: get it right!
This is clearly five fingers and a potential thumb (unseen). So, if that's what the artist intended, then fine, otherwise it's amateur trash!
That's not photoshop I'm doing that with my hand right now!
This is what the previous GTA games were all lacking in: The polydactyl hooker department.
This is ridiculous. there are 5 fingers on that hand, there's nothing wrong with it other than an unfortunately placed shadow, not an extra finger.
im not saying its a well drawn hand. but saying there are six fingers is just being nitpicky.
DON'T DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE SIX-FINGERED PROSTITUTES, THEY NEED LOVIN' TOO!
Whoa. It took me a LONG time to figure that one out. Maybe I'm slow.
That hand is just plain creepy... She'd slit your throat with those nails.
I think it's a Lost crossover. Remember the four-fingered statue in the first season? Clearly, what the artist had in mind with this illustration is that many years ago, on the island of Lost, the Dharma Initiative conducted bizzare human experiments. They would impregnate women with genetically-engineered twins, one with four fingers on each limb, one with six. Eventually, there was a war between the four-fingers and the six-fingers, which the four-fingers won due to improved running abilities (less fingers = faster running, think about horses for example). The ruined statue on the island was built to commemorate the four-fingers' victory. The six-fingers were then banished from the island and, for obvious reasons, went on to become highly sought-after whores.
The shadow on the forefinger makes one finger become two... Removing that would be a quick fix, although the shape of thing finger would need some retouching as well.
Does it count as a Photoshop Disaster if really it's just an ART Disaster?
oh cool, a polydactyl in popular culture. remember, hannibal lecter (in the novels at least) was a polydactyl. :D
maybe it's another easter egg. 'find the girl with 11 fingers!'
I'm I the only one thinking about getting a Handie? Polydactyl hookers are hot.
How on Earth did this come unnoticed, before they spent millions on campaign, that features this image on every cover, buildings, subways?
Not really a Photoshop disaster, but a disaster nonetheless.
I was entertained, and that's pretty much all that matters.
Her little finger and the finger before it look a little odd too. They just don't look like they'd work like that in real life. I'm astounded how such talented artists could get such things wrong.
But yes, not really a PS disaster. Painter maybe. Remember the original Street Fighter SNES artwork where Blanka had 2 left feet?
i dont really think this is a photoshop disaster because photoshop wasn't used in the creation of this.
am i right?
"i dont really think this is a photoshop disaster because photoshop wasn't used in the creation of this."
It was definitely drawn on a computer. If it was Photoshop or one of it's clones, does it really matter all that much?
Photoshop is the most common software for painting.
Look, same guy, second 6-fingered cover art:
http://kotaku.com/5011295/so-more-gta-freakazoid-finger-hands
Say what you will, but she gives one helluva "happy ending".
(rofl)
I know I'm commenting LATE, but I didn't think I could log in anonymously.
Anonymous said: "But there is 4 fingers and one thumb on her hand?".
The upper most finger cannot be a thumb. Try holding a lollipop or a pen with your thumb in that position. Can't do it. Hence, 6 fingers.
Anonymous said: "But there is 4 fingers and one thumb on her hand?".
The upper most finger cannot be a thumb. Try holding a lollipop or a pen with your thumb in that position. Can't do it. Hence, 6 fingers.
A program such as photoshop can easily be used to produce pseudo realistic painting effects. Painter IX also produces the same result, but better due to tool manip.
No one's thumb should be able to bend like that AND hold something at the same time. When you really look at it, no ones thumb in existence should be able to bend on the angle the "thumb" is on. I am voting it's a fifth finger.
"Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." (watch The Princess Bride)
IT'S HUGE! :D
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/2463/datei1208840677je5wj4.jpg
In the imgshack picture, it looks like her bellybutton is misplaced, too.
Funny thing is, this is still in the game version
It actually looks like just a VERY badly drawn shadow and that the knuckle is *supposed* to be part of the forefinger and fails (because of angle.) If it's supposed to be 6 fingers it still isn't well done because it's not definite enough. But then there's the *other* six-fingered gangster by the same artist lol!! That makes it much funnier.
"I'm going to do him left-handed. It's the only way I can be satisfied."
There are 2 scenerios: The artist had 2 layers for 2 versions of the hand, one with the finger pointing and one with it curled, he might have forgotten to turn off one of the layers when saving it for the designers.
Or some dumbass said "no the finger shouldnt be curled, make it point out" to a graphic designer, who then messed it up (the finger is not drawn very well in comparison to the rest, so it could be a comp-in).
Even with the obvious disaster of the index finger, it seems her pinky finger is just as much a disaster. The only 2 possibilities, her pinky over her ring finger, or her pinky horribly misshapen. Its first bend goes toward her body, and the last bend comes back out??
It's not a mistake, folks. Check the cover art. Note the gangster firing the mac 10ish gun from the backseat of the car in the bottom left photo. Right hand has 6 fingers.
Anne Boleyn much?
Possible artists prank.
The painting is poorly done overall....looks very rushed.
I can't believe that it made its way into anything used to promote something.I think the artist simply lost track of fingers....and made too many.
Or he was a smart ass...artists put jokes in their work sometimes.
It's that artist's signature, his artworks for previous GTA games also have 6-fingered people.
Yeah someone already linked to the artist's other work. I think part of the problem is that it isn't really definitively a 6th finger - clearly evidenced by the fact that it was debated hotly here ;) But seriously, it could be just a poorly drawn index finger; it's really not absoluely positively a 6th finger - either way it was done badly.
But I agree he was probably going for a 6th finger since he does that, and it's kind of cool anyway. Something to mention when talking to a GTA4 fan - hey, did you find the 6-fingered whore or what? Heh.
I'm quite amused by the fact that her hand is conveniently cropped out in the cover art and included poster of my copy.
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