We've been getting a ton of press at Worth1000 over our Ultimate Celebrity contest, where the goal is to take the best physical features of multiple celebrities and merge them into one super celebrity. One of the requests we got from a prominent newspaper was to prove that Aviary (a web app) could really be used to create an ultimate celebrity. Piece of cake.
This time around Aviary's resident plastic surgeon Meowza performs illegal skin grafts on Catherine Zeta-Jones, Keira Knightly, Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron, creating the beautiful Catheinize Zightly-Jeliens. I hope his malpractice insurance is paid up.
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This work made heavy use of painting, blending and layering effects.
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Kudos to INXS for providing the beautiful accompaniment!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
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Created by Aviary. I don’t think she’s that gorgeous - but its cool to watch it being done ….. ...
Comments
Posted by Avi Muchnick on 2008-03-05 13:44:31
Mario just introduced a cool Andy Warhol style peacock composition against this image: http://a.viary.com/imagedetail?fguid=a9053a4c-3c22-102b-844c-0030488e168c#6647 http://a.viary.com/imagedetail?fguid=b8658002-3c2a-102b-844c-0030488e168c Awesome!
Posted by Aimee Valle on 2008-03-05 13:57:56
Excellent use of Phoenix. It's just too bad that when you mix up the most beautiful ladies in the world you end up with a bland Charlize, more or less.
Posted by suebe on 2008-03-05 18:55:59
Absolutely jawsome!
Posted by Mike on 2008-03-06 02:15:39
UGLY AS f**k....
Posted by Andrew on 2008-03-06 02:19:51
ugh
Posted by jim on 2008-03-06 02:26:14
It's a man, baby.
Posted by Rick on 2008-03-06 02:26:54
Is it just me, or she reminds me of Cameron Diaz?
Posted by JC on 2008-03-06 02:35:45
That was pathetic. You made one ugly woman. There was a similar demo by talented people where they created a beautiful woman from scratch. All you did was schlep some body parts together in a meaningless fashion. You didn't combine all their noses into one prettier one, you just cut and pasted, like some retarded Mr. Potatoe man. This is some of the worst work ever. Seriously, get a new line of work.
Posted by Frank on 2008-03-06 02:56:29
What tool was used in PS after the nose, or eyes were applied? Blend?
Posted by bk on 2008-03-06 03:10:45
lol, JC. You need to go outside more.
Posted by Slav on 2008-03-06 03:30:20
Good job, but you're forgetting the fact that attractiveness is correlated with symmetry. This ultimate celebrity lacks it.
Posted by J on 2008-03-06 03:32:07
One ugly biatch
Posted by www.cg-links.com on 2008-03-06 03:43:01
Great job.
Posted by Mark on 2008-03-06 04:05:06
Mmmm Angilina Jolie alone looks better than the combo one and all of the other celebrities combined so you shoulda just had a picture of Angilina Jolie.
Posted by Bob on 2008-03-06 04:20:37
Is it just me or does this mean that Kristanna Loken is the perfect celebrity? As the CG effort looks just like her.
http://llucartes.com/bloc_imatges/kristanna_1.jpg
Posted by Mark Anthropic on 2008-03-06 04:42:55
Her eyes all wonky
Posted by Joeri on 2008-03-06 05:37:59
Her nose is gigantic! Lips look weird too...
Posted by deebs on 2008-03-06 05:58:05
ends up looking like a blonde angelina jolie with semi-crooked lips. still interesting though.
Posted by LLY on 2008-03-06 06:29:33
That's one hell of an amazing software, but the final outcome is sort of erm, ugly?
Posted by pip on 2008-03-06 06:40:28
It is not just you, I thought Kristianna Loken, too!
Posted by Mars on 2008-03-06 06:51:51
Definitely not an example of synergy, each of the parts are better looking then the sum. This assumes that perfection is a slightly anorexic blonde chick...but this is America so maybe this is perfection.
Posted by Bob on 2008-03-06 07:17:12
Shemale
Posted by topher5 on 2008-03-06 07:34:39
Eye are to high nice try....
Posted by Adam on 2008-03-06 07:40:09
Isn't that Charlize Theron?
Posted by Sandy on 2008-03-06 08:14:15
Wow, so much angst... I don't think that ultimate celebrity is attractive, but that's so cool that Aviary can do all that. :D
Posted by doggo on 2008-03-06 08:21:35
Wait, isn't that Ashley Judd?
Posted by Bas on 2008-03-06 09:04:13
Nice work!
Posted by Walter Hartwig on 2008-03-06 09:16:19
Looks Great to me!!!
Posted by shanamat on 2008-03-06 09:28:53
The finished face looks to me like Kelly Ripa.
Posted by CJ on 2008-03-06 09:41:50
WoW JC, someone needs a hug or something, LOL. Stop making Americans look so angry for the dumbest reasons. :x
Posted by Jessica on 2008-03-06 09:53:56
Still looks like Charlize Theron more than anyone.
Posted by Sarah on 2008-03-06 10:42:34
Simply amazing!
Posted by aksum4586 on 2008-03-06 11:09:29
Screwed the eyes up bad. None of those girls have those eyes.
Posted by Mick Russom on 2008-03-06 11:42:55
Very un-shagadelic, baby. The three floozies are each much better than that horrific amalgamation.
Posted by Gary Gnu on 2008-03-06 11:48:05
That noze gotta go!
Posted by Hasan on 2008-03-06 12:36:43
Eww :D! Maybe you should try more .... but you did good job trying :)
Posted by Cid Alves on 2008-03-06 12:42:10
I think she looks like Mena Suvari
Posted by blah on 2008-03-06 13:14:44
she looks like Fergie :S
Posted by Rich on 2008-03-06 13:28:53
The eyes are way too high up and the mouth is weird too. Ugly !!!!
Posted by iBikini: Sexy babes in bikini on 2008-03-06 13:34:22
Where are the bikini pics?
Posted by Avi Muchnick on 2008-03-06 13:36:30
Hmm, I feel bad moderating comments that aren't spam - but some of these are just purely negative about the artwork for no real purpose than to troll. :)
Posted by Me on 2008-03-06 13:40:55
Looks a good job but the female turned out ugly.
Posted by Jon on 2008-03-06 13:53:34
Is it possible to get a version of the video that's more high-res and 'slowed down' to real time? I would love to use this as an example/tutorial on using Phoenix as you quickly grabbed a lot of tools and used them. The end-product is nice but I would like to enjoy the process of what you did more and I can't see it all.
As for the complainers about the look of the new girl... Guys (I assume) come on.. that girl is, in fact, very pretty especially considering she was created quickly with 'random' source images with different size/angles/aspect ratios and coloring. Even Doctor Frankenstein was more selective and he cheated and used the whole head when creating his 'bride'! I think it was a great demo of Phoenix and the capabilities it offers compared with PhotoShop and the picture was very nice. I would be really happy to have your creation as my date for dinner.. but that would be awkward since I'd have to carry all the conversation. :)
Posted by Viper098 on 2008-03-06 13:56:53
i'd more like to see an average of those faces rather than seeing each womens features added to a single face
Posted by dagger on 2008-03-06 14:42:29
this doesnt work. these women are beautiful because all of their features work together, so you cant just take the best feature of each and throw them together to make some super hot chick. it is just going to make some weird looking chick (as it did) because the features dont work together.
Posted by AG on 2008-03-06 14:49:15
Looks very trashy -- get rid of the blond hair too
Posted by Jimmy L on 2008-03-06 15:23:41
She's my new virtual girlfriend (I have 230, but she's now in the top 5).
Posted by peekj on 2008-03-06 15:26:37
That's Madonna..... :?
Posted by Mxistence on 2008-03-06 15:33:55
Hmm, I like Charlize more the way before...
Great tool though! Cheers!
Posted by Ms.Caesi on 2008-03-06 16:14:23
Fantastic Blend, however she didn't turn out to be very attractive did she? lol
Posted by sss on 2008-03-06 20:13:01
looks ugly to me.
Posted by anonymous on 2008-03-07 02:45:05
catherine zeta-jones' lips were taken over angelina's?! and kiera's nose was tweaked so much it ended up not even looking like the original anymore...pretty good photoshop skills but bad choices :(
Posted by anonymous on 2008-03-07 02:46:59
*excuse me, not "photoshop skills" as i said above, but i suppose "photo manipulation skills" will do :)
Posted by cato on 2008-03-07 07:34:10
nice work !
Posted by Geskel on 2008-03-07 09:00:12
Jepp, that's what I've always said; Kylie Minogue has the worlds most perfect face....
Posted by fuge on 2008-03-08 06:39:39
what about jessica alba? she's hot as hell!
Posted by yukyukyr on 2008-03-08 09:20:06
good skill, ugly person
Posted by alisha on 2008-03-08 16:31:04
hi how can i get those effects?..
Posted by perv on 2008-03-10 08:19:13
suck my dik
Posted by thatwastheworstdemoever on 2008-03-16 13:49:05
Looks horrible.
Nose looks stupid,mouth doesn't fit right, and she has gremlin/lemur eyes. Nasty.
You basically made one composite picture that looks worse than all three of the originals. What a waste of people's time that was.
Posted by igre on 2008-03-20 10:56:26
Hmm, could be better, but nice try anyway.