Last week I was working on a new set of stickers, and I had a crazy idea – what would Minimates look like if they had real textures? I decided to spend a little time in Photoshop and find out for myself.
I started with one of the Minimate designs on the coloring pages on Minimates.com. I found some nice clothing and skin textures online to use for the body. I used a photo of myself, since I didn’t want to warp anyone else’s face beyond recognition. After much trimming, shading, and highlighting, here is the result:
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So what do you think – cool or creepy? Personally, I am leaning towards creepy, but perhaps that is just because I was the subject of this deformation!
Cool but the nose area appears too light or something.
Definitely more cool than creepy although I think running the textures through the cartoonizer app would be even more interesting.
It’s an interesting look. I’d go without the fingers though, that parts just doesn’t seem to work for me but the rest looks pretty decent on a mate.
I’d love one of myself although I doubt anyone would recognise it as me if it had no nose.
It is kind of funny, but I don’t really like it. Too much details don’t really work on the block style. At least that’s what I think.
I dunno – the texture for the jeans and shirt are OK, but the face is a little creepy. Like someone tried to make a skin mask out of another person’s face, and stretched it out too far.
I think it’s creepy, but that’s probably because I think Luke’s a little creepy.
I’m going to have to go with CREEPY! lol
Creepy gets my vote
It sounds like the general consensus is that we should either kill it with fire, or nuke it from space. 🙂
As long it has your face, right. 😉
Poke it with a stick!
I vote COOL! Neat idea Luke.
I agree with Boyd — OK for the clothing but no for the skin. Makes me think of what Buffalo Bill wanted to do in SotL.
*gave self the creeps & runs off*
I LOVE IT! I think it look cool. I want one of myself!
I think it’s cool, as long as they have that think border! Very interesting idea. Have you tried making it an actual figure? That’d be pretty interesting as well! 🙂
Creepy. So very creepy. Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.