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Apr 23, 2007, 06:49 PM
 
So I'm playing a friendly joke on my roommate and I need a reasonably high res picture of the Burger King king. It needs to be fairly straight on, hopefully with his arms in similar or same positions and without any of his head or arms too cut off. His legs aren't important. Ideally it'd be at least a 1000 pixels tall, but I could probably work with it if it were 400-500 pixels tall.

Now, I'm not saying there isn't one online, but generally I have the Google-Fu and a couple hours of searching the web has turned up little.

I like the one that's in the lower left of this image, but can't find it any bigger.


Can anyone help me? I'd be most appreciative. I'm thinking an HD grab off a commercial would be great, but I don't have such a signal at my house.

Thanks!

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Apr 23, 2007, 08:46 PM
 
You could always rasterbator it.
     
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Apr 24, 2007, 06:31 AM
 
just a heads up, the off line version of that doesn't work for Macs.

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Apr 24, 2007, 06:45 AM
 
I don't think Burger King has HD commercials.

Your best bet may be to find some printed promo material. I know the Burger King Xbox games have some on it.
     
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Apr 24, 2007, 07:25 AM
 
Best creepy mascot ever.
     
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^ agreed
     
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Apr 24, 2007, 02:52 PM
 
Originally Posted by Railroader View Post
You could always rasterbator it.
Yes, that's the plan, but I don't think that tiny image has enough detail to rasterbate well. I'm trying to make it almost 6 feet tall.

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Apr 24, 2007, 02:54 PM
 
you could always go into a burger king and ask if they have any of the life size stand up things, and ask for one.(might have to give a little money for incentive though) I've seen a couple of BKs that have them
     
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Apr 24, 2007, 04:23 PM
 
Originally Posted by GSixZero View Post
Yes, that's the plan, but I don't think that tiny image has enough detail to rasterbate well. I'm trying to make it almost 6 feet tall.
You'd be surprised.
     
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Apr 24, 2007, 05:45 PM
 
Ok, you're right. I am a little surprised. While the quality isn't as good as I might like, I found it's probably good enough. I photoshopped the head from the lower right corner of the above image to make it a little better and I think it's going to work ok. I'll post pictures here when I'm done.

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Apr 24, 2007, 08:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by GSixZero View Post
Ok, you're right. I am a little surprised. While the quality isn't as good as I might like, I found it's probably good enough. I photoshopped the head from the lower right corner of the above image to make it a little better and I think it's going to work ok. I'll post pictures here when I'm done.
I have often been impressed with rasterbator. From a distance, which is what most rasterbatorred (?!?) images should be viewed from, you can hardly tell how small the original image was.
     
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Apr 24, 2007, 09:04 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakarʒ View Post
Best creepy mascot ever.
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That reminds me of this:

     
   
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