Monday, September 27, 2010

Halloween Awesomeness

Halloween is such a great, visual holiday. Is it too early to post for it?  Coz I'm ready.

When I went to Comic-Con they had portraits that did this:

Haunted Portraits
It was totally awesome.  And now old pictures freak me out.

Also: if you haven't seen it yet, check out Kevin Keele's super spooky haunted girl picture.  I can't stop staring at that doll!  O_O
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19 comments:

  1. BrentSeptember 27, 2010 at 12:09 PM

    Now THIS is totally awesome!

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  2. KactiguySeptember 27, 2010 at 1:13 PM

    I love these. I'm so ready for Halloween.

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  3. P. Daniel QuinneySeptember 27, 2010 at 1:17 PM

    It's never too early for Halloween! Even the day after isn't too early.

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  4. Linda HensleySeptember 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM

    We're all going to end up that way eventually. Might as well laugh about it!

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  5. lilliSeptember 27, 2010 at 8:28 PM

    how did you do that? 0.0 I can't stop watching it change.

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  6. Janet Dibbydabby.com.auSeptember 27, 2010 at 8:40 PM

    Wow, I love this. We dont do halloween here, (Australia) always wished we did!
    Great concept.

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  7. GenericSeptember 27, 2010 at 11:40 PM

    Sooooo interesting!!!! The characters are just wonderful visually, and this idea is great for Halloween. It can't come fast enough!!!

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  8. psychopoochSeptember 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM

    You got me in the Halloween mood. Nice! Kevin Keele's piece is pretty darn awesome too. Thanks for sharing :)

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  9. ChristianSeptember 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM

    Oooooh.... Too cool!

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  10. rmsmiSeptember 28, 2010 at 11:47 AM

    This is hilarious! Great idea!

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  11. rmsmiSeptember 28, 2010 at 11:47 AM

    This is hilarious! Great idea!

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  12. Lisa GravesSeptember 28, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    this is excellent!!! Halloween is my favorite!

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  13. k.h.whitakerSeptember 28, 2010 at 7:19 PM

    ok, that's fabulous!

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  14. Carrie LiaoSeptember 29, 2010 at 1:45 AM

    I would LOVE portraits like that!

    Very cool :)

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  15. Heather DixonSeptember 29, 2010 at 12:49 PM

    Wow everyone, thank you so much!

    @lilli - I animated it in Photoshop and saved it as a gif. That's a file format that'll do animations on the web. It was fun. I forsee doing more in my future.

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  16. GynuxSeptember 30, 2010 at 4:49 AM

    Very well done ! (although a little bit frightening ;)
    I'm wondering how it would look if the frightening versions of the portraits appeared without fading, as if it was revealed by a lightning for example.

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  17. Heather DixonOctober 1, 2010 at 5:59 AM

    @Gynaux - Yeah, I totally agree! In fact, that's how I originally animated it (a'la Haunted Mansion). It looked very strange, though, I wasn't good enough with photoshop animation to get it to look right. So I did fading. I think when I'm better I'll give it another shot.

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  18. RonOctober 3, 2010 at 8:12 PM

    Funny you mention the lightning vs fading effect in the Haunted Mansion portraits. They had originally faded back and forth, as yours do, and it was only in the last few years that they changed them, so that they change with the lightning, as I understand. The funny thing is, that was the initial idea in 1969, but they weren't quite able to pull it off.

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  19. Kevin KeeleOctober 5, 2010 at 10:27 PM

    Thanks for the shout out! And thanks for outclassing me with this spectacular post! You are so seriously awesome. Also, HALLOWEEN!

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