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Midnight Assassin
Midnight Assassin
It's supposed to be a silencer right after the shot at a sleeping victim. Ever try to make a night stealth scene? Anyway the silencer and bullet were made from source, smoke from scratch, background is external.






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yello_piggy yello_piggy
left any bad comment?
karell karell
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bigbuck bigbuck
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blue_lurker blue_lurker
different
marcoballistic marcoballistic
oh very clever Tofu, nice entry
Goat1981 Goat1981
Cool.
Micose Micose
a bit early Juan Gris cubist style
Feral Hamster Feral Hamster
cool
TheShaman TheShaman
nice hitman vote... I could use a guy like you......
GrampZ GrampZ
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Govan Govan
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Death of a Clown Death of a Clown
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Stevster Stevster
Cool!
MoLinKo MoLinKo
nice work
delucx delucx
:)
Eepi Eepi
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rashdog rashdog
I like this tofu but I find the background distracting...that is, the story might be better told with some part of the sleeping body on the bed visible (an arm, perhaps) and maybe a clock to show the time. As is, the background seems too generic to me.
LuvLotsaFun LuvLotsaFun
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L@rue L@rue
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Wett Wett


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TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
YP: huh?
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
Hmmm... Well I thought this'd do better. Oh well. Details on the chop:
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
I used a motion blur on the side of the "barrel" of the silencer to give it more of a gunmetal look instead of wood. I also, obviously, changed the color. Used three layers on the silencer alone.
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
For the bullet I took the mushroom shaped part of the toy and cut out the cone. I stretched it using the perspective tool to get the bullet shape. I cloned the end to get away from the concave curve in the source.
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
I then used four layers to make it look like a copper-clad bullet. I flattened that and dup'd it adding motion blur to the dup'd layer to create the bullet's motion.
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
The smoke was done by hand using the airbrush and smudge tools on a layer. Then the layer was dup'd twice and layer blends used to create the effect. I didn't want the smoke to be pronounced but I wanted it to be visible at least.
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
The background is an add for the audio equipment on the nightstand. Source: [img] sonos.com...
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
Following Sean's suggestion I lightened up the background immediately after posting this. Anyone else have tips on how to keep the "night" feel whilst making it easier to discern what's happening in the picture?
rashdog rashdog
(to continue from my vote above...) Still, though, I like what is going on here. :)
TofuTheGreat TofuTheGreat
Thanks rashdog. I totally agree and that's where I wanted to go with the chop at the start. I tried and tried to get a good source of someone in a bed but couldn't find anything that worked. I also didn't have time to take my own shot eithe



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 Midnight Assassin
by TofuTheGreat
TofuTheGreat
Created May 19, 2006
20 votes   10 comments
550w x 375h (76KB)
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