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After watching James Cameron's AVATAR, I really wanted to have an avatar of my own. :o) Here is the result, after fooling around in photoshop for a couple of hours.

The music is from the original soundtrack: Track 5: Becoming one of the people. Buy it on itunes store.

Remember to go and watch the movie!

All the best
Peter Ammentorp
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Yannick Barthe 2 years ago

Wahoo, great idea ! I haven't the same experience as you with photoshop for make the same ! Very good result !
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Thanks man, I really appreciate! :o)
iamkalaniprince 2 years ago

Seriously, this is fantastic. What did you use for your screen capture ? You need to do a photoshoppers commentary on your work. K, now I gotta go see Avatar tonight !

Love and Aloha, iamKP-
iamkalaniprince 2 years ago

PS: did you get that eyeball off the web ?
Rickard Bengtsson 2 years ago

Great video! Wondering about the eye as well.
Olivier Depaep 2 years ago

I like it ... my 'scarface' pic could do with an update anyway.
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

I like yours - just updated mine aswell :o)
Paul Holman 2 years ago

That's pretty neat. Haven't seen the movie yet, but from the trailers I've seen you could join the cast. Very nice !
Mattia Santino Merli 2 years ago

Thanks FOX, here in Italy Avatar will be released in Middle January... Anyway, great job!!
shira ronen 2 years ago

wow
thank you for that it was beautifull
Patrick Jacobson 2 years ago

Thought i commented on this one but seems i missed it. Wonderful work! Great skill and superb result!

Regards,

Patrick
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Hi Patrick, thank you so much for the kind words!
Tom Guilmette 2 years ago

great stuff! i still have not see this movie... IMAX 3D after the holidays....midweek.
Tom Lowe 2 years ago

Get to it, Tom!!
IGO 2 years ago

nice work... you made that look too easy!
Eduardo Duccigne 2 years ago

Amazing!
Rodrigo Müller 2 years ago

nice! why did you skip the part where you shaved?
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Hehe, I'm impressed that you caught that one! :o). I guess I didn´t want to reveal everything before the final image.
Rodrigo Müller 2 years ago

haha, gotcha! ;D
Tom Lowe 2 years ago

Very cool.
Mike Polak 2 years ago

awesome:) great execution:)
Max 2 years ago

wow, awesome!
Noslenespiral 2 years ago

Great Work. Congratulations.
Jiawen.Liu 2 years ago

awesome! now i just have to find a way to watch Avatar now!
Jess A. 2 years ago

Gnarly times 3..!!! awesome...!!
Corax Incarna 2 years ago

Slick man.
Claudio Carreon 2 years ago

This is great work :)
Michael Omonua 2 years ago

so cool. ive seen avatar 3 times already. love pandora so much. will watch again on boxing day.
Pandora Morosan 2 years ago

I hear you said love Pandora!!
Patrick van der Heyden 2 years ago

Wow, very cool!
Next Episode 2 years ago

Very cool picture. Equally hot guy!
Inofaith 2 years ago

why would you wanna do this?
Jeff Dougherty 2 years ago

Great work.
Knot3n 2 years ago

great
Head Shot 2 years ago

My Avatar avatar is a bit furrier
Lorelei Culbertson 2 years ago

Incredible- thanks for inspiring me to crack open CS4 again!
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Haha my pleasure! :o)
thomas Boccaccia 2 years ago

auhauhauhuhuahuh
Vj c1c3 - particles experiment 2 years ago

jajaja i crack my PS too!!
Jan Voth 2 years ago

great man, great
mpared 2 years ago

awesome posted at the curious brain
Eleftherios Kokkinakis 2 years ago

Nicely done with every possible details but yet kept at a low difficulty level. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on the good job.

Lefteris
erwan manchec 2 years ago

very nice job, if you have a detailed tutorial i need it :)
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Hi Erwan, thanks alot. I´m considering doing one - will let you know then. Merry xmas
erwan manchec 2 years ago

i'm looking forward to it :) i never made morphing before and i really want to try
erwan manchec 2 years ago

merry xmas
michaschmidt 2 years ago

well i would like to see a tutorial too :) ... just saying
Jude 2 years ago

AMAZING!! I want to know if you release a tutorial too!!
JUST AMAZING!!!
ibelchi 2 years ago

One more waiting for the detailed tutorial... Anyway, great work at ps, awesome...
Florian Eichin 2 years ago

yeah boy looks great, i'm super stoked about! germany lies to your fett :-P
mein melon 2 years ago

wooooowww~ you inspire me...
George Hedon 2 years ago

Check out my blog: digitalbuyologie.blogspot.com

to see your avatar!
Ricky Boyce 2 years ago

After watching the movie, this music is too epic!
Petrus 2 years ago

Funny idea and really good work. Nice results, i'm impressed. Congratulations Peter !
T. David 2 years ago

Awesome!
Make please a tutorial, i need own avatar. :)
Merry Xmas!
Marco Koschka 2 years ago

Year, a short Tutorial would be nice!
Do you have some Link for the Texture you used for Photoshop?

Great Video, great Film, thx for upload
and Merry Xmas
Echinadrome 2 years ago

Yes, I second the notion. Can somebody give me a play by play explanation of what's going on? You will need to be a good speed-talker though.
HDFreak 2 years ago

Wicked stuff! I'm gonna try it as well but I'm way uglier than you! Hahaha!
Vj c1c3 - particles experiment 2 years ago

Sublime//!!!
nani coar 2 years ago

With a bump map You could have it in 3D, 'cept the ears. :)
michaschmidt 2 years ago

haha well i like it ... great photoshop work ... well done !!!
Karen Abad 2 years ago

Awesome
Salima Belle 2 years ago

really cool :)
Finn Køhler Hansen 2 years ago

Fantastisk arbejde :-)
Ammentorp 2 years ago

Now I understand why you want an Avatar of your own. ;o)
Stoil Vatev 2 years ago

my attempt to do this, inspired by your video - youtube.com/watch?v=yVI9YohvI-M
flickr.com/photos/30944801@N03/4208818557/
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Hey Stoil,

That is really great! Thanks for sharring
and a very merry xmas to you sister :o)

All the best
Peter
Angel Navarro III 2 years ago

Speechless :-O
Pandora Morosan 2 years ago

Fantastic attempt Peter. You did an awesome job transforming your face to an Avatar. Can you do my face too?
Antoine Guédès 2 years ago

Awesome work!
Perfectly done.
Juan Reyes 2 years ago

I'm going to try this, and I might (okay, probably will) fail but either way, it'll be cool. lol
Crano 2 years ago

excellent work!
kARTHIK KRISHNA 2 years ago

great work!!
renaud 2 years ago

Thanks !! I have my avatar now !!
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Hey my brother :o)

That is beautiful, thanks for sharring

Pay it forward
Peter
renaud 2 years ago

Of course ! it's my last tweet !
Merry Xmas !
Tuhin Kumar 2 years ago

Hey Peter, do you mind writing a blog article about it on our blog in January. Inspiring Pixel inspiringpixel.com
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Hey Tuhin,

Not at all, that would be an honour!
Thank you so much man and merry
christmas to you.

All the best
Peter
emrah karakoc 2 years ago

maybe we could see that video as a tutorial :)?could it be possible ?
Panagiotis Tzelepis 2 years ago

please a guide m8....
we are 3 friends and we want to make a huge poste with our faces.......please !!!!!!!!!!!!
Morris 2 years ago

good good job man. came out very well. looks like the real deal.

did you use animal eyes or actual movie snagged eyes?
Ricky Cook 2 years ago

great Job! You just inspired me to try harder in photoshop :)
T. David 2 years ago

flickr.com/photos/toltesi-david/4208473357/

My Avatar.
rashard milligan 2 years ago

that was cool
Emrah Gunduz 2 years ago

cool...

you must definitely model your avatar on zbrush :)
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Wish I knew how to do that. Really want to learn to use that program :o)
Emrah Gunduz 2 years ago

actually, pixelogic site has free tutorials and resources for a quick start. once you understand how modeling/sculpting in zbrush works -plus some shortcuts, which are beautifully selected and easy to remember- it is not hard to create something.

after that point all you'll need is talent. test yourself with the 30 day trial :)
Vj c1c3 - particles experiment 2 years ago

zbrush is a good idea, or maybe Mudbox!
Rob Imbs 2 years ago

cool stuff
9 2 years ago

I have shivers. thx a lot.
Jon Yoder 2 years ago

Thanks! I like it a whole lot. :)

I made a tutorial / follow-along tutorial on my blog:
jonyoder.com/blog/?p=216
Pierrick Foulquier 2 years ago

How cool ! =)
Hachre 2 years ago

great :)
Tim Pigeon 2 years ago

Really well done...
Christen Bach 2 years ago

Looks fine. although I must admit, that using the eyes from the original poster completely put me off the project.
Besar Ismaili 2 years ago

that's great!

You really inspired me .

thanks a lot.
Satoshi Takano 2 years ago

Wow!
Abdi Ali 2 years ago

This is Awesome.

Can you please make tutorial of this.
Much Respect.
RenderFarm Productions 2 years ago

i was also inspired by this! made my avatar too! but it's a less contrasty one...

i18.photobucket.com/albums/b116/janixpacle/avatar/avatarko2.jpg
i18.photobucket.com/albums/b116/janixpacle/avatar/avatarko.jpg
Peter Ammentorp 2 years ago

Beautiful! :o)