In keeping with my theme for the week – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – I decided to make an adjustment to movie poster. I followed the assignment details from the “Creepy Anime Eye” under the Visual Assignments in the DS 106 Assignment Bank.

While this assignment was easy and didn’t take long, I really enjoyed being able to play around in Photoshop. It has been a long time since I’ve used photoshop to make significant changes to photos. There are a lot of cool features to Photoshop that I never knew, like easily editing facial features.

Enjoy this rather creepy depiction on the Ferris movie poster!

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After

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Oh yes, anime characters with big bug eyes can be creepy. Because it’s not proportional at all on the characters. And it would be even creepier on human beings as you can see with Steve Urkel and Laura Winslow. Look how creepy this is! For the 80s theme culture, I chose Family Matters which was a very famous sitcom in the black community. I remember watching this show and falling in love with the character Steve Urkel. A very funny character whose catch-phrase was “Did I do that?” So for the title, I used his catchphrase indicating who changed his eyes. The world may never know. To make the eyes pop out I used Pixlr which is a photo editor. I loaded the image and then used Liquify to enlarge the eyes.

With the ever growing acceptance of “nerd” culture, some things become more mainstream and known, like for instance anime. In another rendition of visual assignments I was given the task of bring the classic anime style big eyes to a photo of a not-so-anime person. In keeping with the 80’s theme, who better to make an anime character than the king himself, Michael Jackson.

I thought it would be a quick and easy task to just make his eyes bigger, but as usual I was incorrect. I at no point beforehand took into account that the eyebrows need to move to make up for his eyes getting bigger. I think he looks less odd anime-eyed out than most people would because he already has a unique look to him and he already had some decent sized peepers as well. On an odd tangent, this makes me wonder if he ever knew about anime before he passed. Pretty happy with how this one turned out though, the signs of editing are not glaring back at me in full force. I’ll take that as a win.

I saw this assignment originally two weeks ago, but I decided to wait for a better moment to do this assignment. The moment to do this activity has arrived. As soon as I saw this, I immediately thought of Snapchat. I used to edit people off the social media app all the time and always thought it was the funniest thing to ever exist. So I thought it would be great to do it again.

On Snapchat, you can edit the photos and videos you take, if you don’t have this social media and didn’t know. So because I don’t have a wonderful photo editing software, I thought of using Snapchat for this. While I was thinking of who I wanted to put big eyes on for this assignment, I thought of doing it on many things. First I thought of myself, and then I thought I would never curse the internet with a picture of myself. Then I thought of someone I knew, but I only had bad pictures of my friends. I also didn’t want to post anything on the internet without their permission. I also thought of doing my suite-mate’s dog or my hamster but realized that the assignment is asking for people. So I finally settled on doing a celebrity.

I decided to do Mila Kunis because I absolutely love her, and I found a picture of her within seconds. I went to Snapchat to copy her eyes, and then I made them larger when I placed them over the original photo. When I first made the eyes larger, her left eye was over her hair. Normally, hair covers people’s eyes, not the other way around. So to solve this problem, I copied some hair and placed it on top of part of the eye.

Honestly, this may not be the most wonderful photo, but I think it’s pretty great. It’s also funny, at least to me, so that’s another plus. Though this may not be the case for most people, I think photos that are obviously photo-shopped or edited in some way are hilarious.

Please enjoy my wonderful photo of Mila Kunis with horribly edited big eyes.

Description: ” You know how those anime characters have oversized eyes? Like Alita: Battle Angel? Do you think they’d look just as creepy on other people? Let’s find out! Take a photo of someone and use an image editor to give them big bug eyes. “All the better to see you with…” “

Honestly, I think this piece of artwork surmounts most.

Good evening everyone! Get ready for a weird visual assignment I completed today.

My task was to edit some weird eyes on people akin to anime characters or Alita: Battle Angel…Although I got a little crazy with the photo editor. Assignment link located HERE

I’m not very experienced with photo editing, so I wanted to try something silly before I jump in to creating art or something with little room for mistakes.

I decided to give some popular 80s movie characters a new bug-eyed look along with doing some interesting face twisting for your viewing pleasure.

I went on to Pixlr to see what I could do to enlarge the eyes in the photo and there was luckily, an enlargement tool. Easy enough. However, things got funky with the Breakfast Club kids when I found twisty tools in the editor.

I made myself laugh this morning making these so I hope you guys smile too. It’s amazing what a little twisting can do to make someone unrecognizable and artificial. It’s like backwards airbrushing that celebrities do to their photos.

For my take on Dirty Dancing here, I discovered the minimizing tool. By enlarging the eyes, making other features smaller became even better. Baby is one of my favorite movie characters because I’ve always thought she was adorable! Now look what I’ve done to her!

On a deeper level, even though I made silly pictures, it was interesting to look at the faces of such iconic characters and see what I could do to twist them up. Even just enlarging the eyes made such a difference in dismantling their perfect idealized movie appearance. If you are ever feeling down about how you look, try this out!

by Cris Shapan

This morning a saw a new creation from one of my favorite contemporary artists, Cris Shapan. This is in response to advertising for an upcoming film, Alita: Battle Angel, which dares to venture into an uncanny valley. What I really like about Shapan’s work is the attention to detail, like that little blurb, “Not for sale where creepy is unlawful.”
But it got me to wondering if I could do something similarly creepy. It looks like a fairly simple bit of Photoshopping. I looked for images of James Bond and found a collage of the many actors in their role. It would have been great to work with, but the image was too small and the resolution was too low. Instead I grabbed several individual Bonds and put them together in my own collage. Then I used the polygon selection tool to copy the eyes, one pair at a time. I set the feathering to 2 px so that it would blend smoothly with the rest of the image. Then I enlarged the eye copies and moved them into place. I had to move the second eye separately to get them closer together, like in the original. I repeated that for each Bond.
The effect is interesting. The eyes are big enough so that they don’t look right, but not so much that it’s immediately obvious what’s wrong. I probably could have pushed it further, especially with Dalton and Bronson. Maybe I should have enlarged their eyes vertically.

OK, that’s creepy. So, I did this because I thought it would be fun. There wasn’t really a Visual Assignment that matched it, as far as I could tell, so I’m making a new one. I had to think of a title, and this just came to me: