My Movie Poster

Over at New World Notes I read about Strawberry Singh's challenge to other bloggers: put our avatar into a movie poster. The movie can be real or otherwise.

How could I resist that?

I spent a couple of hours this evening-- time when I could have been building jewelry or repeatedly falling out of the sky-- to create the above poster. It's a reasonable copy of the poster for the film Emmanuelle:

I was unable to find the fonts used-- most likely they were created for the film-- but I was able to approximate them. I put less text at the bottom because let's face it, production credits for my knockoff were limited to myself. I did, however, manage to line up an all-star cast.

I made the avatar's image by putting myself against a black backdrop and focusing on the lower part of my face. I sat on a poseball so I wouldn't move and used Outy Banjo's great HUD emoter to open my mouth. I took a dozen or so snapshots before I got one with my mouth set just right. I loaded the photo into the free photo manipulation program GIMP and cut out the section I wanted. Then I removed my avi's teeth and changed the angle of the chin and the cut of the mouth opening to more closely approximate the original poster. After that I added fictitious credits, and Bob's your uncle.

I was hampered a bit by the resolution of my crop, but I made it work. The text is readable after doubling the size of the poster; before I did that, it wasn't.

It was fun, but I have a lot of falling out of the sky to catch up on, so I'm signing off.