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Post number 15482

acornface — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:50:48 -0800

Play "police sketch artist" with this Flash project. You can select from dozens of different noses, jawlines, eyes, hair, and so on to create an image of your friends or foes. It's harder to recreate someone than you'd think.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:42:24 -0800

This is the coolest ever. Thanks acornface. Now I know why they never catch criminals with these things.

By: monkeyJuice

monkeyJuice — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:48:30 -0800

No! No! No!
Please can we call out the "correct day for posting police" please - This looks to me like it should have been posted on a friday, when i can spend the whole day messing around creating silly face and not just several hours! - great post!

By: talos

talos — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:48:57 -0800

Wow... great tool, great link. I have managed a modest resemblance of my self, but I doubt anyone could recognize me from the sketch alone. I couldn't draw my boss to any degree of resemblance. Is it just the limited options or just me?... I'm sending this to a few graphic artist friends to find out...

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:10:57 -0800

If you're curious what I look like, go to the site and load "ColdChef." That's basically me, except I don't have as much of a mullet. Man...all the "hairs" are really fucked up on that site. There must be a lot of 80's criminals wandering around.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:12:45 -0800

If you try this, save the face under your MeFi name, so we can find you easily. On further review...I look NOTHING like the sketch of me.

By: headspace

headspace — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:15:13 -0800

I didn't try to make myself, but I think I did a fairly good job of recreating Edward Furlong (Terminator, American History X.) It's saved under my MeFi name as author, and well, Edward Furlong as the title. Putting these faces together is amazingly hard.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:17:30 -0800

Not bad, headspace. He looks like he's about to knock over a liquor store. Very realistic.

By: monkeyJuice

monkeyJuice — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:22:25 -0800

please dont laugh at my physiognomy i beg off you monkeyJuice

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:23:53 -0800

Twenty bucks to the first person that can make a good Miguel, Mathowie, or Dong_Resin!

By: monkeyJuice

monkeyJuice — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:24:10 -0800

odds on this site wont be here to-morrow morning

By: monkeyJuice

monkeyJuice — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:27:17 -0800

matthowie2002 - i swear this hasnt been taken with a digital camera

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:28:10 -0800

I canceled out before I realized you could save it there. But I took a screenshot, so if you care what I look like, click here. Please note, though, I'm much prettier IRL.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:28:58 -0800

We have a winner! Jeez, this is fun. Yeah, this should have been saved until Friday. I'm getting NO work done today.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:31:59 -0800

Dammit to Hell! How did everyone else get the head and hair and jaw to work right? I look like a damn hobbit!

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:33:41 -0800

I am a fucking idiot. I didn't know you could move the pieces around. Let me try again.

By: mblandi

mblandi — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:35:43 -0800

Man, I look exactly like this except with cheekbones and nasal bridge and a lot thinner hair. I couldn't draw my wife though. Is there a section of the site with feminine facial features I didn't catch? Funnily enough, my best moustache would be a fu manchu...

By: jiroczech

jiroczech — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:36:18 -0800

Ok... I had a go at a self-portrait - with a lot of help from Joe, my five year old son. Saved under my Mefi name like ColdChef suggested. Nice link acornface, a cool bit of Flash alright.

By: warhol

warhol — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:36:33 -0800

right-o. I've saved myself under my MeFi name. Similar, but not quite right. Didn't have my glasses and I've biffed the proportions somewhere, but at least it looks more like me than oh, say, Carrottop or the Queen Mother.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:37:32 -0800

I saved as Danelope. It's actually surpringly accurate, though they don't really have my eyes.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:43:07 -0800

I keep ending up with Cokie Roberts. Keep an eye on that chick, she's trouble.

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:47:59 -0800

I've got mine. Pretty accurate, I guess, but there were no ears, and I've got two earrings in my left ear. I'm least happy about the nose.

By: donkeymon

donkeymon — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:49:06 -0800

I had a dream last night about a girl I don't know who died in the dream, and I was able to recreate her face in the thing before the memory fades from my head. Strangely, it was only te minutes ago, but she is four pages down in the list.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:05:05 -0800

halfway through my masterpiece ("if Miguel and Dong had a baby together") the site crashed and now it won't load at all. Well. Back to work...

By: monkeyJuice

monkeyJuice — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:08:19 -0800

halfway through my day the site crashed. Well. Back to sleep

By: Danelope

Danelope — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:10:39 -0800

Site's back up now, it seems.

By: thewittyname

thewittyname — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:15:14 -0800

[This is good]. The site loaded up just fine for me, and I was able to save my pathetic attempt at a self portrait using my username. Thanks for the link acornface!

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:29:19 -0800

oh man, ColdChef...that is great. mine is close...but i couldn't get a goatee scaled down enough to make a soul patch.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:35:58 -0800

super sweet. great site!

By: nylon

nylon — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:37:11 -0800

oh boy, what fun! those crazy russians and their silly hairstyles! ha ha! i wish all the hair salons and cosmetic surgeons in the world would have this online. hi, yes, i'd like my chin a little wider, please. and yes, my eyes need to be much closer to the top of my head. eyebrows? yes, get rid of those. oh, and while i'm here, could i have a ridiculous beard, please? i see also that the fonz has resorted to petty crime. the shame. coldchef, i shat my pants when i first saw your pic.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:42:16 -0800

*wishing there was a "delete" button on that site*

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:45:46 -0800

Okay - mine came out actually very good. Lookup name "kokogiak". Great link acornface!

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:46:42 -0800

damn, it keeps saving extra stuff with my John Belushi sketch. great fun link. hope it stays around for a while.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:55:19 -0800

I'm in. I couldn't find the precisely right beard, but i found my eyes right on. Sadly enough, they're not the same size in real life either.

By: David Dark

David Dark — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:58:51 -0800

i tried a mathowie2002 (only one t).

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:15:56 -0800

Is it just me, or is the saving either not working or taking forever?

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:22:57 -0800

"Miguel as a Student" my version of a young miguel's college ID

By: Eric Lloyd NYC

Eric Lloyd NYC — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:47:39 -0800

More Miguel.... Name- Mc24 / Author- Mc24 Coldchef-- Paypal will do fine, lol

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:44:46 -0800

I can't seem to load any of your grim visages.. administrator please hope me, et cetera.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:55:48 -0800

I can't find a hairpiece in this thing that resembles mine. Where's the short cropped hair with a mildly pronounced widow's peak? And if I still had my ponytail, fuhgettabahtit! Ufez, it's not just you.

By: adnanbwp

adnanbwp — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:10:51 -0800

checkout Mathowie2060 . .hehe heeh .. just kiddin mat.. dont ban me or somethin ...

By: cx

cx — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:50:52 -0800

I've made my mugshot - it's called MCX - except for the nose it's pretty good actually.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:06:30 -0800

I prefer the Mathowie 2050. Very Shel Silverstein. "So, what did you do at work today?" "Oh. I just sat around and made faces." Oh, and make sure to check out The Phil's "Woody Allen". Hilarious.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:12:10 -0800

There I am under Hildago.

By: nprigoda

nprigoda — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:56:47 -0800

I'm up under my mefi name. Everything except the nose is right, I even made my glasses slip down (annoyingly so I can't see), the way they always do.

By: goneill

goneill — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:11:45 -0800

CAN'T.GET.TO.SAVE.... HOPE.ME.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:20:35 -0800

Keep my mug out of this! Bah, I look nothing like those guys. I keep trying to save ColdChef but it crashes when it sees the likeness. As for The Phil, well my lawyers and the William Morris Agency will be in touch. ;) This is great fun, acornface, thanks.

By: milkman

milkman — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:27:29 -0800

i'm on there now 'milkman' they didn't have a soulpatch, so i gave it a sort of 'last year' look. and the jawlines are whack.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:32:07 -0800

I saw an "MEC" in there...Miguel? Was that you?

By: Dreama

Dreama — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:50:32 -0800

After more time than I'd care to admit, I just can't do it. I couldn't make myself or my mom, and I didn't even try my best friend. I don't think that it's very suited towards making women's faces.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:10:54 -0800

I saw an "MEC" in there...Miguel? Was that you? Good, huh?

By: youhas

youhas — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:47:38 -0800

Apparently not even the most dastardly of thieves have figured out how to have hair disheveled quite like mine is. I brim with pride. I'm in there as "Antwon". It's a decent first-approximation of my appearance, I guess.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:42:58 -0800

Not a lot of girl options, really. My eyes slant up, so none of the eyes were going to work...and all of the jaw lines seemed to have that 5-o'clock shadow action...plus the hair...omg, like I'd be seen like that in public. :) Ergo, sorry, no Dejah police sketches. :) But still, a darned fine link. Many hours will be wasted here. :)

By: gohlkus

gohlkus — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:44:32 -0800

okay, is hair #50 Conan O'Brien's hair?

By: bingo

bingo — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:24:48 -0800

I can't figure out how to save mine.

By: bingo

bingo — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:24:48 -0800

I can't figure out how to save mine.

By: goneill

goneill — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:00:51 -0800

me neither bingo...

By: bingo

bingo — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:05:03 -0800

Ok, I figured it out...my monitor is so mall that I didn't realize I had to scroll right to get the save options (upper right part of screen). So, I'm in there as "bingo." My most prominent features are my cheeks, which I can't find a way to include, and oddly what I've depicted is more like myself 20 lbs heavier, which was not so long ago. But you might be able to pick me out of a crowd.

By: bingo

bingo — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:07:05 -0800

er, so "small" not so "mall." somalia? never mind.

By: bingo

bingo — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:10:09 -0800

...although now it takes forever to save...and someone i'm talking with in IM says he can't load anything either...we must have overwhelmed it... I guess I'll just keep that browser window open the rest of the day until it goes back up. I don't want to have to go through making my sketch again.

By: qbert72

qbert72 — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:34:19 -0800

As always, late to the party, but there it is, a quick and dirty me, under my Mefi ID. I haven't looked at all of you, but I have to agree that ColdChef's mug shot is scary. But I still love you Chef!

By: goneill

goneill — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:13:43 -0800

you guys - i got it to work - honey - now you can see my face!!! but check goneill2...

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:37:07 -0800

I'm gonna say this one more time. I am an idiot and I couldn't make it work. That's why I look like a Hobbit. And Goneill: You are beautiful. Just as I knew you'd be. BTW, Your CD is in the mail.

By: qbert72

qbert72 — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:10:23 -0800

Oh, and Miguel should find a better host for his Página não oficial, I'm trying to look at him and the photo is taking forever to download! Come on, Miguel, you can do better than that!

By: goneill

goneill — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:10:42 -0800

chef - i had a really good picture of myself - and then it wouldn't save a la stupid flash stupid me took 35 hours creating it with the help of my entire office... Your cd is not in the mail my sweet, but it has been given a lot of thought, and will be wonderful!

By: bingo

bingo — Sat, 16 Mar 2002 03:14:47 -0800

I thought I had saved mine, but now I can't get the site to run a search or list alphabetically without freezing up my computer. It's saved under author: bingo, picture: bingo; I noticed that someone else had saved a picture named bingo, which is definitely not me.