Usually I don't care for plain old bad Photoshopping. But in this instance, where a designer has gone beyond the realm of jejune lameness to deliver a piece of trainwreckage so astonishingly feeble, so outrageously inept, so overwhelmingly half-assed - that the senses are intoxicated by powerful wave after wave of revulsion and sadness, I make an exception.
Thanks to Andy and everyone else who sent this in!
63 comments:
hahahaha, Jesus Christ!
but isn't it cool they're vampires? No reflection in the mirror behind them--so Twilight!
Well, at that angle you wouldn't see the reflection. The reflection would be off to your right.
I'm much more concerned about how ballet seems to cause limb loss in the young. That poor girl's arm is missing, and whatever she has has spread to the thumb on her left hand, too.
It's so cute how they have the same face, the woman's has been made-up and the little one doesn't quite fit on her head... Creepy, they're not only vampires, they're cyborgs!
Creepy how ballet washes out our youth.
We should cut them some slack for hiring a transsexual ballerina as a model.
Unless there's another reason for those huge, mannish hands.
@TychaBrahe actually, she's supposed to "hide" her thumb (that's what ballet teachers say to little girls when teaching them how to position their hands).
but yes, she's definitely had her arm amputated.
Argh. My eyes. My poor eyes.
GREEN EYES!
There's such an energy drain from the lasers powering up to fire out of her eyes that the hologram of her skirt has begun to flicker.
so...from now on Photoshop is compatible with a WII-balance-board?¿?..And this is the instruction-dvd?
wv: dronis,and that's what they look like
The kid looks like an alien, or something from one of those spooky movies where the kids kill all the adults...
Personally I like the half-assed brushing into the mask of the tutu to make it 'transparent'. Probably spent all of 30 seconds on that one.
I don't see what the problem is with the girls arm. I stood in front of a mirror at the same angle and was able to make my shoulder look like hers without having to remove my arm. The head doesn't look entirely right, but then its within the realm of possibility that she looks like that. The only thing I find odd is the womans large-ish hands, and maybe the tutu transparency.
Sometimes, I think the posts here reveal a Ancient Egyptian sense of how to represent the human body.
Not every limb is visible from every angle.
It looks like the Wii games developers really don't give a damn about their covers. You guys remember the cover from Paws & Claws?
I wonder why they didn't use real live ballerinas instead of these incredibly life-like mannequins?
I'm curious if the people posting these have any field experience as a photographer - mostly because this and a few others are well within the realm of 'that probably isn't heavily photoshopped'.
Most likely both models were shot separately and composited in over the background shot, but other than that...
And the other commenter is correct - given the angle the mirrors on the wall are at, you're not going to see them in the mirror from that camera angle.
Great blog and all, but it makes me roll my eyes when there's a posting that most likely isn't a 'photoshop disaster' in any way.
Youse guys keep forgetting about light sources and about paste-ups done with an Exacto knife.
I'm so buying this game!
I think the point is that the compositing is terrible. You'd get a smoother match using a pair of scissors.
I can't decide which reader notion I find the cutest; that there are angles at which wall-to-wall mirror reflections aren't visible, or that Wii game cover preparation involves actual photoshoots.
Jeez, some of you... how is this not awful photoshop??? How can you even begin to talk of camera angles and such, when it is so clearly a comp, and a badly done one at that? And if the tutu isn't a killing blow, then what is? The two comp'd on heads? And for the photographers - isn't it clear to you that both the woman and the little girl were each shot at eye level? If this was done in one shot, we would be looking down on the girl and not able to see up her nostrils. Move your head around while looking at the picture and you can easily find the three different camera angles - the woman, the girl and the room.
From the Frankenstein school of making bodies from bits of bodies from car crashes.
Oh. Your. God.
I don't think the creator of this...thing...has ever seen real human beings, let alone human beings in ballet. How the HELL does this kind of crap get out of doors?!?
Wait, I bet the designer knew PsD exists, and made a side bet with a colleague on whether their cover would make it on this site. That only means another like it is on its way soon! AAAAAAH!!!!
The Wii is like the direct-to-video of the gaming world.
Gosh this is so bad. The tutu and the badly comped on heads...
I can't believe any of you think this is a real photo, I'm going to assume you're trolling to save my sanity.
The worst part is that you can kind of tell they spent a very long time working on this...
I fairly sure not one single element of this cover was ever in the same city with any other element.
From an old shooter: three very bad frames badly comped. The Seinfeld "man hands" on both people are the effect of using "short" lenses. The cluttered rehearsal room shot(crap all over the walls, etc.) is the result of stupidity. With a zero photo budget as an example, that game software has to be the pits.
Believe me, cheap Wii games are VERY CHEAP GAMES.
A game like that was easily made in a single month. They EXPECT to get unusually low ratings because there are enough grandmas and soccer moms walking the store aisles that don't even know that anyone rates games.
You say "This cover looks like a teenager did it in a single afternoon."
I say "That's probably correct. He would be the cheapest bidder, wouldn't he?"
Here's the answer: 505 Games doesn't list "My Ballet Studio." Probably a knockoff playing on the 505 brand.
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I'd love to see the ballet show with the little girl doing the robot...
So... why did they even need to Photoshop this? I mean, I could organize a shoot with two models, in tutus, in a location that is or could pass as a ballet studio in about 10 minutes with almost no cost. Or, I could find an appropriate stock photo in half that time for less than $10. Art directors of the world: Photoshop is an amazing tool, but it is not an all-powerful deity that will grant your wish to turn a pile of crap into a brilliant masterpiece. And, really, it's not a cost-cutting measure unless some homeschooled kid paid you to work on it.
ohh my EYES!
"So... why did they even need to Photoshop this? I mean, I could organize a shoot with two models, in tutus, in a location that is or could pass as a ballet studio in about 10 minutes with almost no cost."
"With almost no cost", in this case, would be about a hundred and thirteen times more expensive.
"Or, I could find an appropriate stock photo in half that time for less than $10."
Which would still be about five times more expensive.
I agree with Conformist above. What's most irritating about disasters like this one is that it can't possibly be that difficult to find a decent picture of a couple of ballerinas in a ballet studio!
In fact, it only took me five minutes to find a better one.
http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1042-390
Anybody else think that the adults arms originaly belonged to a man?
Maybe Wii could release a PS manual? or something...
wv: dromin
clearly they're both dromins.
The "tutu" even looks cut and pasted on.....gross.
Obviously they have 2 dimensional heads. What other explanation could there be?
It's about a game, right? Perhaps the game is about spoting evil space aliens that invaded the bodies of the dancers?
>>I agree with Conformist above. What's most irritating about disasters like this one is that it can't possibly be that difficult to find a decent picture of a couple of ballerinas in a ballet studio!<<
It'd still make it to this Blog because then the cover would have the "istockphoto" watermark on it.
SERIOUSLY! My high school students would do a better job in 5 minutes their very 1st day using Photoshop!
the pasted heads, the bad perspective, the hands and the see true tutu.... its bad but i could buy it, what bothers me most, is the fact that her legs are transparent too. If you take a picture of a non transparent tutu and you make it transparent, don't forget that legs are never transparent, so cut the legs out of you selection!!!
Guy Montag, I suggest you put your tutu on, look in a mirror, and attempt to comprehend how transparency works on multi-layered, diaphanous items of clothing. Then post us the picture.
I don't need "field experience as a photographer" to spot a glaring disaster that has no similarity to the reality.
It's 505 Games. A company that makes the shittiest casual shovelware ever. I wasn't exactly expecting much.
it's more like SOS games
"it can't possibly be that difficult to find a decent picture of a couple of ballerinas in a ballet studio!"
It isn't.
Appropriately enough, Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
WDI, it's just a cheap composite job. It's not like arms, legs, or digits are missing or malformed.
Sure the tutu transparency is crap, but honestly, who cares? There's a trillion bad composites out there. Why bother with this when there's better and funnier stuff out there?
In the land of elongated limbs, chopped off digits, cloned suspenders, hilarious use of liquify, surely there's better than this out there?
Next you know, we'll be laughing at silo'd product shots.
Google image ballet studio and look at the second picture.
@Guy Montag
Nah, we will just keep laughing at you.
You know, if this had been an illustration for a small-town newspaper printed on the sort of toilet tissue we used when I was the editor/illustrator/layout person for one of those, this would be fine.
To use this as the cover for a commercially-released GAME BOX is just...unforgivable.
My husband is a photographer, and let me just repeat this for the BAJILLIONTH time here:
It isn't that expensive to get a couple of people in a room and PHOTOGRAPH THEM!!!!! What's wrong with people?
WV: "gestera"
"This layout gestera in my mind for weeks! Meesa gonna get unpaid intern to Photoshop! Yay!!!!!1!"
—Jar Jar Binks, Creative Director
I'm just impressed that they were able to clone out the iStock photo watermarks on all 3 images...cause you know they just used the free comps!
Must be homeschooled, lol!
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You may painfully regret, only to realise that it is too late.
i have a friend who works for 505 ... there's an interesting story behind this cover that i probably shouldn't repeat, but it's not a fake.
The backdrop of the ballet studio is just ripped straight from Google! (just search "ballet studio" and it's the 3rd result)
Following Elle's comment above, isn't this nice?
Link to the original image source
Link to the original image
Link to superimposed images
At least they cloned out the chandelier and the grille on the wall in the mirror.
Word verification "doutstca" as in "Gotcha, douchebags"
their eyes are effing creeping me out...
@Elle:
It was the second result for me! I can't stop laughing.
http://www.furniturebuilder-interior.com/balet_studio__3__op_800x600.jpg
I believe the 6th result to be more realistic:
http://www.onlyheartsclub.com/images/products/ballet_st05.jpg
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