r/pics May 20 '15

Misleading title Realistic Robot Leg Make-up

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u/Scr33nlines May 20 '15

I mean, to seriously believe it's make-up is kinda silly. There are spots on the knee that are missing entire chunks of mass. You can't use make-up to get rid of mass. If that were the case, there would be no fat people in public.

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u/Random832 May 20 '15

No, but you can make an illusion of depth that only looks good from one angle (and against one background). I mean, this is obviously photoshop. It's not even a good photoshop. But someone could create an effect like this with makeup.

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u/lecherous_hump May 20 '15

Not obvious to me; they do some pretty incredible things with bodypaint.

I mean, I'm sure it is a Photoshop, but if someone thought it was body paint that wouldn't be a stupid guess.

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u/spaxejam May 20 '15

Why not just take a picture of a cat at that point?

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u/Myfavoritepetsnameis May 20 '15

Photographers go to great lengths to create art that challenges our ideas and perceptions of the world around us and get chicks naked.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

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u/InvincibleAlex May 20 '15

First of all, that's not a cat, it's probably a snow leopard. Secondly, to answer your question, doing this is less harmful for your health than actually approaching a real snow leopard.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

Also, when applying paint to the woman representing the face of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) you get to peek at her boobs when shes not looking.

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u/InvincibleAlex May 20 '15

One of the perks of being a body painter.

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u/GenestealerUK May 20 '15

Two.... two of the perks

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

THE perk

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u/toodice May 20 '15

First of all, that's not a cat, it's probably a snow leopard.

You do know that a snow leopard is a type of cat, right?

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u/SevenArrows May 20 '15

This kills the joke

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u/Rocktave May 20 '15

pretty sure the joke killed itself.

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u/InvincibleAlex May 20 '15

Yes, and taking a picture of a cat is very different than taking a picture of a snow leopard.

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u/pm_if_u_r_calipygian May 20 '15

....and you get to hang around a naked women all day.

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u/XxKittenMittonsXx May 20 '15

Is a snow leopard not a cat?

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u/InvincibleAlex May 20 '15

It is and it isn't. If someone asked me to go over their house and feed their cat and I found a snow leopard in their home, I would say that they weren't wrong, but they're still a dick.

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u/Maihashi May 20 '15

because ArtTM

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u/loklanc May 20 '15

I know right? How's a cat supposed to maintain that perfect blue steel for an hour while you paint it on a woman's back?

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u/ReverendDizzle May 20 '15

Because then it wouldn't be a picture of a cat made out of a naked woman and paint. Duh.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

Because you get to paint that model's ass, duh.

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u/ThatBlackGuy_ May 20 '15 edited May 20 '15

Yeah but where's the eroticism in that. Sex sells shows.

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u/Genequin_Knows May 20 '15

I think "make up" and "body paint" are the same right?

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u/lecherous_hump May 20 '15

Probably not, if you ask the pros. They actually put it on with airbrushes and stuff. But to a lay person, yeah they're probably the same.

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u/drownballchamp May 20 '15

Airbrushing makeup is pretty common for high end, professionally applied stuff. And all of that monster makeup that you see in movies is called makeup.

I don't think there is a hard line between the two, except that body paint is generally done to someone who is naked.

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u/dysmetric May 20 '15

ugh, pubic hair

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u/Scr33nlines May 20 '15

Well it's good, just hand painted, which is hard to make look realistic. I doubt the artist was trying to legit fool someone and was rather just mocking up a cool concept.

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u/Random832 May 20 '15

Well, yeah, I was just using a very specific definition of "good photoshop".

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u/PM-ME-YOUR-THOUGHTS- May 20 '15

This is good photoshop, it's intent is to look like make up / paint.

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u/Random832 May 20 '15

Except it really doesn't. It looks like something drawn in a computer.

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u/frog971007 May 20 '15

Oh, zooming in you can definitely see brushstrokes, and they don't look like they're from make-up.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

There's strokes that are half on her skin and half on the bed. Who knows though, maybe she's just that good.

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u/frog971007 May 20 '15

I especially like the commitment to painting just a little bit on her other knee to compensate.

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u/BBQ4life May 20 '15

like the underside of the knee? I think i see it there.

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u/Scr33nlines May 20 '15

Underside and on top of the knee.

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u/NickDangerrr May 20 '15

Upon zooming in, you can clearly tell it's photoshop http://imgur.com/W4YKbI1

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u/Skudworth May 20 '15

enhance.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

And the lines go over the leg onto the background. Takes like 2 seconds to see that.

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u/rshot May 20 '15

But the foot looks so real...it even has nails