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http://www.therugbyblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/polar-bear-big.jpg

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Love, Love, Love it!

I think it could go a bit higher on the shirt. ;)

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This is too good for woot. Just sayin'.

Got my vote, and hope it makes a meteoric rise- awesome...

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Each time I look at this design, I pick up on another detail. Awesome job!

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I love the design, for the most part. The spatters are throwing me off just a teeny bit - they're flat, against a more apparently contoured rendering. Still, I predict a print. This is lovely, if in need of a few tweaks.

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This looks like a photo manipulated in photoshop.

paigeg wrote:I love the design, for the most part. The spatters are throwing me off just a teeny bit - they're flat, against a more apparently contoured rendering. Still, I predict a print. This is lovely, if in need of a few tweaks.

Ehh... too much of kind of tacky, a tourist shop vibe in composition for me to wear, in addition to what Johndis said.

Not that it is a 'shopped photo, but I wouldn't want to where something that looked like that.

jmmbell1987 wrote:Ehh... too much of kind of tacky, a tourist shop vibe in composition for me to wear...

This sums up my feelings about it. I think it's nicely done, but it has about as much appeal as a dreamcatcher shirt to me.

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I Like it! And I know some one else who would. kassemg.

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On what planet that isn't this one will this even come remotely close to printing well?

Gorgeous design, but I'm afraid about how its going to print. Can you upload a high-res picture?

+1 from me either way.

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I'm gonna throw my hat in on this one and say I don't mind the image but it's not going to print as shown. It could print well but it needs a couple more colors so that your not having to use so fine a half tone to get the tones you want (like a grey to keep the white from having to print so fine in so many large areas). Again remember any time your doing large areas of a print with a 10% or less halftone your asking for trouble, especially on a dark shirt that requires a base. Just a caution.

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most of your prints are so bottom-heavy, sitting low on the belly. This one is no exception.

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Holy cow! Great job. I've been starting at this trying to deconstruct how you made it. Good job. Great art.

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Wow! Rocketed to the top. GOod for you! :D

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Why not just link a larger image to clear up some of the printing doubts here? It's harder for people to judge when it's this complex and at a small size.

kylemittskus wrote:On what planet that isn't this one will this even come remotely close to printing well?

Even if it printed well... it still looks like something you'd get off the rack at an Alaska rest stop shop.

jmmbell1987 wrote:Even if it printed well... it still looks like something you'd get off the rack at an Alaska rest stop shop.

Which is why it's so popular with Woot voters!

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THis should definitely rock the top spot!

I love this shirt hope it makes the top, I do agree it should go up a little higher on the shirt.

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I absolutely love this shirt! You did an amazing job. My favorite animals are polar bears and I think you made this lonely nomad of the north look wonderful. I hope your shirt wins!

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Beautiful! Nice to see something like this in a derby!

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A little higher on the shirt and I'd definitely want it!

Linda in Alaska...
PS...Haven't seen anything even close to this in the tourist shops!

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I wouldn't wear this, but you GMV because I think the shirt is really well done.

Jestik wrote:most of your prints are so bottom-heavy, sitting low on the belly. This one is no exception.

my thoughts exactly.

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It's funny, this is exactly the kind of tee design that sells like mad when it's printed, even though it is also exactly the kind of tee design that the artists spend the most time lambasting. Like it or not (personally, I'm in the latter group), I'd be surprised if this didn't somehow make it into the third spot.

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Hmm, I definitely agree about the placement, it really should be higher. It's at a very awkward level for women with any chest whatsoever.

Johndis5 wrote:This looks like a photo manipulated in photoshop.

I get the same impression... maybe the first post is making me biased?

~T

tico0001 wrote:I get the same impression... maybe the first post is making me bias?

~T

It wouldn't be the first time.

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=46391

It looks like he just scribbled out some around the eyes and nose so that you couldn't get a definitive match on the photo he used this time. IMO

tico0001 wrote:I get the same impression... maybe the first post is making me bias?

~T

I got the same impression, too, but that's probably because he's done it before. Sorta damages the trust.

SunnyLea0 wrote:I got the same impression, too, but that's probably because he's done it before. Sorta damages the trust.

So. I have a question. I'm working with Photoshop cs3 and I'm wonder how to go about doing the halftone work like the stuff you have in this picture. I don't know how to accomplish this, seemingly easy task. I can't do gradients because they can't print those, I just want to be able to understand how to create images that Woot can print. All my (serious) stuff is getting rejected.

Johndis5 wrote:This looks like a photo manipulated in photoshop.

That's what I first thought when I saw it. It doesn't help that kdeuce has been caught lifting from stock vectors before.

Johndis5 wrote:This looks like a photo manipulated in photoshop.

Just sayin



I'll let the fine people at Woot decide what to make of this.

Yourkiddingright wrote:Just sayin

I'll let the fine people at Woot decide what to make of this.

I'm guessing you'll get the same effect by using this picture. Polar bear pictures pretty much look alike when viewed head on.

jwaal wrote:I'm guessing you'll get the same effect by using this picture. Polar bear pictures pretty much look alike when viewed head on.

Nope. I don't even have to superimpose it to tell you it won't. That bear has it's head at a shallower tilt making it's effective head height ratio in the picture almost half of the other one that he did use. That and the shading and lighting is off. I'll admit it's not a 100 percent match but there's too many things that line up for it to be a coincidence. Throw in the fact that he's had entries pulled before for doing the same thing and I just can't give him the benefit of the doubt.

tico0001 wrote:I get the same impression... maybe the first post is making me biased?

~T

I may have been biased when I posted that. When I saw this design, my first thought was, "Wow, that looks like a photo." My second thought was, "Didn't this 'artist' get busted for using someone else's image before?" Then I did a GIS for "polar bear" and that link popped up on the second page. If I had photoshop, I'd have tried to line it up myself.

Yourkiddingright wrote:Just sayin



I'll let the fine people at Woot decide what to make of this.

He obviously just blacked out around the eyes and nose a little so that it wouldn't match up perfectly. I wouldn't hold my breath though. The fine people at woot have been dropping the ball more than usual on a lot of things lately. It's not even fun to come here and vote anymore.

They'd save a lot of time if they just dumped the derby rules in favor of:

"Derby #179 - ???: Just submit some crap and maybe we'll print it."

hashimotoyoshio wrote:So. I have a question. I'm working with Photoshop cs3 and I'm wonder how to go about doing the halftone work like the stuff you have in this picture. I don't know how to accomplish this, seemingly easy task. I can't do gradients because they can't print those, I just want to be able to understand how to create images that Woot can print. All my (serious) stuff is getting rejected.

It is under Filter/Pixelate/Color Halftone.

Very artsy, very cool!!

dsgnGrl wrote:It is under Filter/Pixelate/Color Halftone.

thank you so much! I appreciate that greatly.

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I can't help but look at this image and wonder if you sourced the polar bear image just like you did the birds in a previous entry of yours.

frik wrote:I can't help but look at this image and wonder if you sourced the polar bear image just like you did the birds in a previous entry of yours.

I agree.
Fool me once...

Johndis5 wrote:He obviously just blacked out around the eyes and nose a little so that it wouldn't match up perfectly. I wouldn't hold my breath though. The fine people at woot have been dropping the ball more than usual on a lot of things lately. It's not even fun to come here and vote anymore.

They'd save a lot of time if they just dumped the derby rules in favor of:

"Derby #179 - ???: Just submit some crap and maybe we'll print it."

Tbh, i still think its a great design, and think about it, if your going to make a shirt with a bear as prominent in the design as in this one, your going to have to reference a picture of a polar bear at some point.

With that however, i think you lose "points," so to speak, as a designer when you just take an image and alter it, as opposed to make your own image based on a pre-existing photo.

Whatever Kdeuce did, its still a sweet looking shirt, minus the design being a little low. Its up to the editors here tho what happens with it. I doubt theyd wait this long to reject it tho, or take any action at that.

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One last note, if this does print, the people at Woot! should raise the design a little higher on the shirt ;O

jwaal wrote:I'm guessing you'll get the same effect by using this picture. Polar bear pictures pretty much look alike when viewed head on.

OOoooooh... so now all polar bears look alike to you? Speciesist.

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This is a cool design. Print it higher on the shirt and it would look good. Too bad it may be an altered photo though as that does lose some cred

Yourkiddingright wrote:Just sayin



I'll let the fine people at Woot decide what to make of this.

This looks more like an actual reference than a simple lifted photo. We should be careful not to reach the point where we punish actual artistic talent (being able to render things skillfully using freehand drawing) with accusations of copying. The general shape of the bear is the same, but many of the details are missing or washed out, and parts of it are altered enough (eyes are bigger, nose looks drawn based on the photo but using more relaxed shapes, etc) that I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

thinkingbox wrote:This looks more like an actual reference than a simple lifted photo. We should be careful not to reach the point where we punish actual artistic talent (being able to render things skillfully using freehand drawing) with accusations of copying. The general shape of the bear is the same, but many of the details are missing or washed out, and parts of it are altered enough (eyes are bigger, nose looks drawn based on the photo but using more relaxed shapes, etc) that I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Blacking out the nose by overwriting it is not the same as redrawing it. same oes for other 'washed out' features. Also, you lose the benefit of the doubt when this is not the first time you're doing such a thing and have been caught before at least once.