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An 18 metre Gundam RX-78-2 robot.Shiokaze Park on Odaiba island in Tokyo, Japan.
From wikipedia:
An 18 meter life size (1:1) version of the Gundam was built in 2009 to commemorate the franchise's 30 year anniversary. The project is in response to the 30th Anniversary of Gundam as well as a fund raising project for Green Tokyo, a project preparing Tokyo in terms of the bid for 2016 Olympic Games with the theme of a Green Olympic.
Two blended exposures, no HDR.
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The ones who helped construct this are the Ultimate Gunpla Builders.
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I had this toy when I was a child!
Look at this other giant robot [link] on flickr
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Omigosh that's so pretty <3 I wanna go see that someday ;-;
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i've only seen crappy snapshots until now. it's even more detailed and gorgeous than expected. thanks for taking this shot!
also,i love how japan thinks making a life size gundam is going to attract olympic attention. XD oh, japan...
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I was lucky to be in Tokyo to see it. Are there any giant robots near you Tomo?
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whoah, that thing is complete?! Last I heard, I think only part of the legs were done, if that.
Awesome looking pic. Just a few technical things - on the left edge, I think there's a spot where the masks don't line up, or something was moved.
Also, there's a bit of a halo effect around the statue. Did you use a large soft edged brush there? If you want precision, I'd recommend using the pen tool, then converting to a selection, add a very slight blur to the mask, then applying it. Should get rid of the halo effect and give a more natural look.
It's just a personal gripe really. I don't like the halo look on HDR or edited photos as I think it makes it pretty obvious where retouching was. I'm just a detail freak when it comes to editing
Cool shot though - another thing added to my list of things to check out next time I'm over there!
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Tried out the pen tool, it's a little better now. Thanks for the tip!
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No worries
Have you used the pen tool much before? It's a bit to get your head around if you haven't. The trick to getting natural paths is using as few points as possible and to curve in greater arcs, rather than lots of smaller arcs. It takes a bit of getting used to, but for dead accuracy, nothing beats it. You can even then convert to a selection, and convert to quickmask (hit q) to manually blur edges if you need to.
I think I made an old tut for masking. Never uploaded it here though. Thinking maybe I should...
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I've never used it in Photoshop, but luckily I've used it in Illustrator quite a bit.
Upload, upload!
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Ah yeah, I'd actually noticed that left edge thing but forgot to crop it, oops!
Yeah, it was a really quick edit with a soft edged brush, I'll try with the pen tool when I have time.
Cheers for the comment
You might miss it though, it's only a temporary thing I think.
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Gaak! O.o the dream of every nerd.. X3
wonderfull photo,looks like cg.. X3
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Haha, I'm not sure why everyone is building giant robots all of a sudden, but I like it!
They are building another one near my house in Kobe now
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I know! theres some major robot phenomena going on in East Asia! but its totally γγγοΌοΌ
Thats really cool! be sure to update us on that one
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