wait, what?

Aya, totally forgot about the lighthouse contest. See, we can do stuff with cartoons.

Three years ago I woulda been pissed to all hell to loose to an image like this, but three years ago I would've been right to. The scope of
"what makes a chop" has changed some in this regard, and the stick in the mud attitude of before no longer fits this square hole.
Source as reference, if not actually in the rules, is by virtue of
it's many occurrances, it's acceptance by so many proficient choppers,
it's having been written in stone by this record breaking,
precedent case.... http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/65879/display.html

has become by historically provable precedences,
a grand fathered in Law.

What's a chop?. .......Hell i thought it was a NOOB...i was just trying to encourage, and guide the poor LOST bastard.....Shit REY, how long you been here???...... ...you know maybe this whole PS thing just ain't working out like you had hoped...Most understand the concept by the third week ..

Is the Entry a chop??......NO, it's not a chop as in.....multiple pieces of photo's combined to make a entirely new image.

Your Honor, if it please's the court....i would like to recount my thought's right before the alleged "VOTING" took place.

There i was...thumbing thru some fine piece's of art...minding my own business, when all the sudden....i came across the defendant....It stuck out like a retard at the Chucky Cheese....i did'nt want to look, but somehow....i was compelled to just get one more glance...then it happened.

VOTE THOUGHT PROCESS: ....Hmmmmm...WTF???....SOURCE...what about source???......hmmmm.......that's some nice drawing....looks like BEDROCK... holy shit...LOOK...IT LOOKS LIKE THE SOURCE...... .....hey it has the sphere sign.... ....this is pretty kewl...hell i like it......VOTE.

in other words.....THE VOICE'S MADE ME DEW IT.

So hope the insanity defense is o.k. with you....that's what my lawyers have advised me to go with.

Does this qualify as a chop?

I don't like these DRAWING chops. (I mean, I think this is a very masterly DRAWN image based on the source image... but)

Seriously, things have changed around here. I do understand that now, in the New PsC Rey's work is 'okay'. But the old school dude in me don't like what he sees. no no no....

(More alarming to me is that, with the ONE MONTH ADVANTAGE, people with good drawing skills can take 30 days to draw their images. Egads. I'm old - ignore me. I just SO love a 30 minute chop. All these "perfect" entries has bored me to tears.

I've got to go cut myself now...

(see retraction further down page)

In all the books I have read about photoshop at least half have used a starting photo to make into a vector or in this case a cartoon. So I believe it is just as relevant.

When I seen this chop I new it was you, you posted a while back in a forum a Flintstone scene you did, so it gave the "author" away for me.

Nice work Rey!!

Just to set the record straight. My image was not done with vectors or illustrator. It was all done with brushes I created in PS. The line work is done with brushes that I made. They are kind of like calligraphy brushes. They get thick and thin with pressure.
The larger areas were done with the airbrush and gradients.

No No No! I'm aware you did it all in Photoshop - I was only saying that the paths/vectors thing is the Illustrator "part" of the Photoshop package.

It's all rather silly, as I'm sounding like the noobs that say Animated Gifs don't fit into PSC. Even though ImageReady (until recently, God rest its soul) came with Photoshop.

Hmmm.... now that I've said that I must go write a retraction.

RETRACTION:

What I've been saying about this not being a chop? Nevermind.

Silly Rabbit: EVERYTHING matters.

Hmmmm....

To me it is like that spoon in the 1st Matrix movie.

There IS NO PHOTOSHOP.






(or maybe that was the spoon from Zoolander?)