The Mating Game

This post is, for me "The One After 909". "What is he on about?" I hear
you ask. And well you might, it's the right band, but the wrong album
as far as the attachment is concerned. Rather than just using the
Magic Wand Tool in PSP to select the album title, I hand traced it in Xara.
I don't think the Warhol estate will be bothered about my fake cans
flooding the market. Although I hand traced a lot, you may notice
that the fonts for "Campbell's" and "Soup" are different. Why bother
hand tracing? To get the effect of the can on the left, which I couldn't
get with a bitmap image. Unless any of you know any better?

The idea of this challenge is to mate one object with another,
and to produce unique and amusing offspring.
It could be 2 movies, ie "Walk The Line" and "Wag The Dog"
might produce another movie: "Walk the Dog". Or "Saving Private Ryan" and
"Private Benjamin" to create "Saving Private Benjamin".
I'm sure you get the idea.
All you have to do is illustrate parts from both movies to create it.
it could be done in the way I've done my attached example, or it
could be using photo manipulation of the cd/dvd covers involved.
I must stress that this is not my original idea, but it is a reworking of
something that I fist saw on the worth1000.com website.
A good source of dvd cover art is:http://www.cdcovers.cc/
A good source of album art is:http://www.mega-search.net/index.php?setlanguage=en
Books, albums, song titles or whatever you like to mate. You may create hybrids,
that is to say, mate a book with a movie, or an album with a movie, or even all three,
or even anything else that comes to mind. Use any graphic software you want.
Saludos,
Bob.

HA! :D That's really good Bob. Fun idea - I'll have to ponder a while :)

Don't know why I came up with this. Didn't spend to much time on it.

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Excellent job, D that's exactly what I had in mind.:D
You don't have to post just one, the more the merrier.
Saludos,
Bob.

My first piece of photoshopping made entirely with Xara.
Some text at the very bottom I had trouble concealing,
but I figured I had spent enough time on this.
Enjoy.
Saludos,
Bob.

This is all very good stuff :) Might be a delayed reaction from here though - inspiration mode not co-operating so far :(

Thanks, John. Probably a bit parky right now for your inspiration remedy.
Have you had much snow in Manchester? We had a few flurries today.
Bit taters here, too.
Hope the inspiration strikes soon:
Gone With The Wind In The Willows.
Annie Given Sunday.
Being Erin Brockovich.
Breakfast at Hannibal's
Moby Dick Tracey
Next Night On Earth
Fiddler On The Town
Ocean's Twelve Monkeys
Withnail And Isolde
Rescue Dawn French

Just go for it, I'm not saying that all of these will work, however.
Saludos,
Bob.

A few flurries yesterday. Not put my nose outside today. But a terrible event has occured in Manchester ... Liverpool were beaten by Utd! :mad:.

I shall endeavour to soldier on however with some Xara-therapy. Thanks for the list :)

Couldn't match the face colours to the neck etc, dropper not picking up (except as it is) - any tips?

Goon with the Wind :D :D :D :D

Brilliant John - Love it!

Glad to see you got your inspiration back, John
Very nice mate! :D
I don't think there's a way of matching the face in XXP,
as you are working with just raster images.
I took it into Paintshop Pro, and used the saturation brush
with limited success.
Saludos,
Bob.

Thanks y'all :D A bit more fore-thought on colour matching for next one!:)

Be afraid ... :p

Lol

John, that is excellent.
Good work on the text, too.

Mine isn't strictly a mate, but it
is a spawn of the previous 4 movies.
The original toilet seat was in the down
position, I had to lift the lid!
All done with XXP.
Saludos,
Bob.

Ha! :d

You didn't know Burton auditioned when Bon Scott died, did you :p

You obviously got an "A+" in G.C.S.E Art and Media Studies, John. ;)
Nicely done!

My effort features 2 movies that weren't exactly blockbusters on
release, but good movies all the same. All done in XXP.
Saludos,
Bob.

GCSE after my time Bob, but thanks!:)

Atom Heart Mother's of Invention.

Can you imagine Floyd and Zappa collaborating :eek:

Not really a 'mate' I suppose, though Magoo was a film.

Olivia Elton John ... wrong on so many levels!! Think it fits better on Steve's mug shots :)

John, where to start. You could have had Frank mating with himself::o
"We're Only In It For The Gravy".
Attached is an unphotoshopped real album cover - uncanny!

Good job it was Diane Keaton looking for Mr. Goodbar, Magoo would
never have spotted him in a month of Sundays.

Olivia Newton John - what can I say apart from the fact that they
were the best half back line up that Preston North End ever had,
rivalling even the Accrington Stanley trio of Freeman, Hardy and Willis.
Sir Elton looks kinda cute, though. :rolleyes:
Which of them is actually wearing the earring?
Saludos,
Bob.

Haven't seen that Zappa cover for years!! :)

She's wearing the earring ... I think. Was going to pair her with a neutron bomb, but that would've been off topic for both threads :p

Well, somebody had to do it :cool: