Sunday, 23 August 2009

"I can't let you go outside Sam..."

Yesterday I saw the film 'Moon' by English film director Duncan Jones. I won't go into details on the plot here because there are countless reviews and discussions elsewhere on the interweb but I strongly urge you to see it while it is out because its theatrical run is very limited.

Anyhoo, in the film there is an A.I computer called GERTY, (voiced by Kevin Spacey), who keeps the main protagonist, Sam Bell (played by Sam Rockwell) company. She has become my latest favourite film character in recent months.

GERTY has several different visual emotional responses throughout the film which are displayed on a small monitor in the form of basic facial expressions. After seeing the film I immediately wanted a replica of GERTY's emotional displays and so I set about recreating her visuals to use as a desktop wallpaper on my PC.

I grabbed stills from the HD trailer and made the following images using Paint Shop Pro 7. They are all highly accurate with the possible exception of the first and the last two images for which I couldn't find any online reference for. They are still none-the-less extremely close to what is seen onscreen.

(Click each image for full resolution):











Feel free to use them as desktop wallpaper as I have done. They are in widescreen 16:9 ratio.
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 September 2009 at 22:50

    I just got back from seeing Moon (loved it) and saw your thread on IMDB - awesome job, man!

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  2. Anonymous9 September 2009 at 08:06

    Just got back from watching 'Moon' too. Love how you recreated GERTY's emotional displays! Thanks very much.

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  3. Anonymous18 September 2009 at 14:42

    This is just too excellent :D

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  4. Anonymous10 October 2009 at 08:31

    Loved 'Moon' and love these-- thanks!!

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  5. Anonymous26 October 2009 at 11:26

    Found your post on IMDB - great job! :D

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  6. Anonymous19 November 2009 at 18:19

    Goddman, cheers man, exellent job.

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  7. Anonymous20 November 2009 at 17:13

    I tend to think you missed one.

    When he gets out of the infirmary, GERTY is *very surprised* to see him. He opens his mouth even more than your 7th image, the ":o":

    The 7th in your list is:
    :o

    But the missing one is more like:
    :O

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  8. Anonymous20 November 2009 at 22:37

    saw ur IMDB post. was thinking these would be some great smileys for aim, msn messenger, yahoo messenger and the like. i have no idea how to do that tho, but these would make some awesome smileys for sure.

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  9. Anonymous21 November 2009 at 03:16

    Thanks for the new wallpapers! :) GERTY was cool and touching, I'm glad that my opinion is shared by many movie fans. Cheers!

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  10. TonyL23 November 2009 at 12:39

    Wow, these are really good. Thanks for taking the time to do them.

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