Free 2D People

Gaieus

XOIO seems to offer two collections of cutout people (with alpha channel):

http://xoio-air.de/2012/greenscreen_people_01/
and
http://xoio-air.de/2011/cutout-people-collection/

(No, I have not downloaded/tried as I generally do not need them).

zapwizard

Thanks for the link, more to add to my growing asset library.

irwanwr

Thank you very much for the info

wyatt

Thanks. I had the ones from the second link, but the first one was new to me.

pbacot

Hi. Does anyone know how to use these? They have a background that seems specifically designed to make cutouts difficult. What am I missing?

wyatt

They are layered TIF files. Did you try opening them in Photoshop or Gimp?

pbacot

Yes, Gimp. I didn't see any layers. Just the background layer.

Besides, this came in the disclaimer:

@unknownuser said:

You are allowed to store these files for personal use , provided that you do not remove any copyright, this disclaimer notice or other proprietary notices contained in the original materials or on any such copies.

How would one use them in a model with the copyright still on?

Gaieus

Sorry Peter, I did not check those details (as I said I do not need these people)

srx

Thanks. Good find.

wyatt

I'm certainly no copyright expert, but my guess is that the authors intended these cutouts to be used as part of a layered Photoshop composition. If that were the case, it would not be difficult to bring all the layers into Photoshop and freeze the non-content layers. The same could be done if you converted these to 2D face-me components. In addition to the cut-out figure, add a face off to the side, import the copyright texture onto it, group it, and put that group on a freeze layer.

I opened a file in Gimp, and you're right, it doesn't show layers. The alpha channel is there though so the selection could be made. I don't use Gimp so I don't know how to extract the alpha channel onto its own layer, though I'm sure it's possible.

pbacot

Thank you Wyatt, I see there are ways to follow the letter of the law, so to speak.

Thanks for the information about the Alpha Channel. I don't know either exactly how to do that, but it gives me something to learn.

Thanks Gai for posting these.

Peter

pilou

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