The close guy’s arm looks deformed. And I can’t tell if that’s a train, or a semi-trailer. And then I wonder why that deformed soldier painted his horse red – doesn’t he know red horses get more tickets?
Wow. Texture fail on the uniforms. Filter fail on the background. Outer glow fail on the author’s name. Dodge and burn shading fail on the red horse. Anatomy fail on the closer soldier. I could go on, but I’d like to go to sleep before morning.
jic
9 years ago
If the purpose of camouflage is to break up the wearer’s outline, then those are excellent uniforms.
There is new, vastly better, artwork on the books Amazon page.
The inside is apparently from a paperback edition. Why would anyone put different covers on different editions is beyond me.
I can just see the process with which it was created:
1. find suitable images (probably google search)
2. cut them out, mix them together to form the imagined scene
3. run a filter over it
4. paint in the stuff that’s missing from the photos.
Ok, I’m gonna go now to find a solid wall to bang my head against. Maybe I’ll get lucky and score an amnesia as a bonus.
Naaman Brown
9 years ago
The landscape looks like a desert photo run through a posterize filter to sort of match the drawings.
Locomotive, fuel tender and one freight car. Not very economical. Unless it is high value freight.
Honestly, I think it’s a nice rough demo of a cover idea. When do we get to see the finished product?
Waffles
9 years ago
Oh sweet Maker!
It is a graphic novel, made with found google images, all just heavily filtered in photoshop.
It burns! Burns!
You beat me to the comment. And the reviewer praises it for being well drawn! Yeah, anatomy in the photos tends to be fairly accurate. This is just god awful.
Nah. Then the reviewer would’ve known the method used to create the ‘art’. It’s probably a naive acquaintance and not a close friend. Only a real douche wouldn’t tell his close friend he’s practically cheating in the ‘art’ department.
A few years ago, authors would go to freelancer.com and pay people to leave scripted reviews and 4-5 star ratings on their books at Amazon.com. I doubt the practice has stopped, which would explain the praise heaped on some of the books.
“This graphic novel, employing a unique illustration technique, utilized the skills of talented 3D modelers, photographers, and professional actors/models.”
It looks like a graphic novel done in the “Tom Goes to the Mayor” style. Sometimes the layers don’t feel like they go together (like the rabbit and the background in the sample pages).
I bet “utilized the skills of talented 3D modelers, photographers, and professional actors/models” means “found their stuff online and butchered it beyond recognition”. There’s nothing unique in running a filter over bunch of mish mashed photos. Or drawing over them afterwards. This “artist” wasn’t the first one who came to the idea of trying to fake it instead of spending years and years learning how to draw well.
Ooooh, camo onesies. Who’da thunk? (Is that a gun in your onesie, or are you just happy to star on the cover?)
I can’t figure out what the gun is IN. It seems to simply disappear into a hole in the Camo-onesie. Just as the reins are attached, mayhaps, to a rather bizarre backwards curb bit on the bridle, but that doesn’t compare to the deformed arm.
And what’s the giant spike shadow? Of what? From what?
If book buyers have to zoom into the full 1085×1500 pixels to figure out whats there (when a lot of folks are seeing covers as thumbnail ads or browsing on palm devices), the cover fails.
Oh, wow. Wearing that bunny pattern in hunting season would be like going deer hunting in West Virginia wearing your Walley World souvenir Marty Moose cap!
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Man, that grainy default outer glow on the author’s name. Whew. Brings back memories.
Memories? Or nightmares?
A little from column A, a little from column B.
The close guy’s arm looks deformed. And I can’t tell if that’s a train, or a semi-trailer. And then I wonder why that deformed soldier painted his horse red – doesn’t he know red horses get more tickets?
Because red horses go FASTER. Duh.
Wow. Texture fail on the uniforms. Filter fail on the background. Outer glow fail on the author’s name. Dodge and burn shading fail on the red horse. Anatomy fail on the closer soldier. I could go on, but I’d like to go to sleep before morning.
If the purpose of camouflage is to break up the wearer’s outline, then those are excellent uniforms.
There is new, vastly better, artwork on the books Amazon page.
Not inside.
OK then:
There is new, vastly better, artwork on the book’s Amazon page; and new, better (but still godawful) artwork on the preview.
The inside is apparently from a paperback edition. Why would anyone put different covers on different editions is beyond me.
I can just see the process with which it was created:
1. find suitable images (probably google search)
2. cut them out, mix them together to form the imagined scene
3. run a filter over it
4. paint in the stuff that’s missing from the photos.
Ok, I’m gonna go now to find a solid wall to bang my head against. Maybe I’ll get lucky and score an amnesia as a bonus.
The landscape looks like a desert photo run through a posterize filter to sort of match the drawings.
Locomotive, fuel tender and one freight car. Not very economical. Unless it is high value freight.
Honestly, I think it’s a nice rough demo of a cover idea. When do we get to see the finished product?
Oh sweet Maker!
It is a graphic novel, made with found google images, all just heavily filtered in photoshop.
It burns! Burns!
You beat me to the comment. And the reviewer praises it for being well drawn! Yeah, anatomy in the photos tends to be fairly accurate. This is just god awful.
In author’s defense, not all images are photos. Some are hand drawn. Badly.
How many degrees of separation away was the reviewer to the author? I’m guessing between 0-1.
Nah. Then the reviewer would’ve known the method used to create the ‘art’. It’s probably a naive acquaintance and not a close friend. Only a real douche wouldn’t tell his close friend he’s practically cheating in the ‘art’ department.
A few years ago, authors would go to freelancer.com and pay people to leave scripted reviews and 4-5 star ratings on their books at Amazon.com. I doubt the practice has stopped, which would explain the praise heaped on some of the books.
Now they use Fiverr and it’s not just books.
From the product description:
“This graphic novel, employing a unique illustration technique, utilized the skills of talented 3D modelers, photographers, and professional actors/models.”
It looks like a graphic novel done in the “Tom Goes to the Mayor” style. Sometimes the layers don’t feel like they go together (like the rabbit and the background in the sample pages).
I bet “utilized the skills of talented 3D modelers, photographers, and professional actors/models” means “found their stuff online and butchered it beyond recognition”. There’s nothing unique in running a filter over bunch of mish mashed photos. Or drawing over them afterwards. This “artist” wasn’t the first one who came to the idea of trying to fake it instead of spending years and years learning how to draw well.
Ooooh, camo onesies. Who’da thunk? (Is that a gun in your onesie, or are you just happy to star on the cover?)
I can’t figure out what the gun is IN. It seems to simply disappear into a hole in the Camo-onesie. Just as the reins are attached, mayhaps, to a rather bizarre backwards curb bit on the bridle, but that doesn’t compare to the deformed arm.
And what’s the giant spike shadow? Of what? From what?
Sheesh.
“I can’t figure out what the gun is IN.”
If you enlarge the image, you can see the straps of a holster strapped to his leg.
“And what’s the giant spike shadow?”
Do you mean the railroad?
If book buyers have to zoom into the full 1085×1500 pixels to figure out whats there (when a lot of folks are seeing covers as thumbnail ads or browsing on palm devices), the cover fails.
I didn’t say it was a good cover, because it’s terrible. I was just pointing out that you can identify those particular objects.
Camo onesies? Those are, ahem, combat overalls. Texas Rangers in onesies?
How many bunny rabbits do YOU see in the cammie uniforms?
A camo pattern that looks like game animals … not a good choice for rural Texas.
The Australians used ‘bunny’ camo for years, and you know how Australians feel about rabbits…
http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=Australia
Oh, wow. Wearing that bunny pattern in hunting season would be like going deer hunting in West Virginia wearing your Walley World souvenir Marty Moose cap!
At least they didn’t go with a feral pig motif.
“Feral Pig Motif” is the name of my next band.