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A Canned Prequel
A Canned Prequel
Siggav


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Rejected Movie Poster (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
Location: My flat
Date: Apr 27, 2010
Aperture: f4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Advertisement, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: May 2, 2010

 The blue cat people must have been blue cats at some point, right?

Anyway the poster is made from a single exposure of my bengal cat Nikita, who glared suitably for me. Then a fair bit of pp to colour her blue, increase various contrasts, get the eye properly orange/yellow and add in the sparkly dots.

I got the Avatar logo font by using papyrus (which is a horribly overused font and it's sort of a travesty that James Cameron chose what's essentially a tweaked version of that very common font for the logo of his multimillion dollar movie. Anyway after putting on the blue glow and a gradient overlay on the font layer I rasterized it and erased and drew in bits by hand to mostly replicate the differences between the Avatar font and Papyrus, it's not an exact match but close enough.

The Missing Link font is Trajan, another overused movie poster font, I thought that was quite fitting

Statistics
Place: 19 out of 215
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Views during voting: 494
Votes: 156
Comments: 13
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AuthorThread
 05/18/2010 12:41:40 PM
This should have gotten the Blue
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 05/10/2010 03:44:34 AM
Really well done. You deserve all the plaudits.
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 05/10/2010 03:19:27 AM
Well done Sigridur! Wonderful poster.

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 05/10/2010 03:05:45 AM
Great score and great finish, well done :)
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 05/10/2010 02:51:37 AM
excellent finish and score - are you going to have a poster size print made for your wall?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/09/2010 07:52:24 PM
Nicely done! Beautiful eye.
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 05/06/2010 10:25:49 PM
Really creative idea to use the cat in this shot. Well done.
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 05/05/2010 01:21:29 PM
I love this one! 10
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 05/05/2010 12:54:13 AM
Nice twist and well done.
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 05/03/2010 07:22:27 AM
great movie poster
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 05/03/2010 01:59:31 AM
Beautiful picture
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 05/03/2010 01:33:05 AM
nice pp
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 05/03/2010 12:13:51 AM
great tag line...well done 8
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