Assignment: Springfield

Scott Hardie | August 22, 2007
After waiting for server traffic to come down to a level where the program no longer crashes, the time has come: Simpsonize yourself, export the image, save it as jpg, and send it to me via the photo upload form. I'll publish what everyone sends, starting tonight.

Scott Hardie | August 23, 2007
What's up? Program not working? Too much trouble? I figured after South Park, you folks would be all over this. :-)

Steve West | August 23, 2007
Had great difficulty getting it to you. It downloaded to my desktop just fine but submitting it on the Goo photo form led to an error message that the file selected was either blank or corrupt. I manipulated the file enough times that I sent it successfully (I thought). Are you saying you did not get mine?

Scott Hardie | August 23, 2007
I'm an idiot. Yes, I did get them, I just overlooked them. Sorry for the trouble.

Scott Hardie | August 23, 2007
Erik Bates:

Scott Hardie | August 23, 2007
Steve West:

Scott Hardie | August 23, 2007
Denise Sawicki:

Scott Hardie | August 23, 2007
Justin Woods:

Denise Sawicki | August 23, 2007
Seriously I don't know if that program actually does much with your photo! It seems the basic template for each Simpsonized person is pretty much the same, only modified by the details you tell it about your gender, age, and hairstyle. Some experimentation shows that it kind of seems to pick up on hair color (except it made my hair a DARK, DARK brown which I like to believe is inaccurate, I made it lighter manually)

Scott Hardie | August 24, 2007
Kelly Lee:

Scott Hardie | August 24, 2007
I agree, Denise. I think the photo is just to set the defaults, and maybe to reduce the number of people using it since that's a big barrier to cross when you start. I'd prefer something more like the South Park tool.

Kelly Lee | August 24, 2007
It sorta looks like me..sorta.

Jackie Mason | August 24, 2007
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Lori Lancaster | August 24, 2007
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Scott Hardie | August 24, 2007
Lori Lancaster:

Amy Austin | August 27, 2007
I think they're all pretty good likenesses, actually...

Scott Hardie | August 27, 2007
Amy Austin:

Amy Austin | September 5, 2007
Haha! Lori, upon revisiting this discussion I just now noticed that we're wearing the same outfit, only with different colors of shirt!!! ;-DDD (And though purple is actually my favorite, I picked that blue to go with my current photo here -- they didn't offer one that said "Big in Japan", though... ;-D)

Lori Lancaster | September 5, 2007
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Amy Austin | September 6, 2007
Heheheh... natch.