2011 - September Chop of the Month

It's already half the month and we haven't prepared this by now.
Sorry for the late post, but we had a tad bit of delay with the feature answers.
It's been a busy month here at PS-Garage, but we keep things in line with a rich chopping month. September was a good month, filled with hard-to-choose what to vote chops, starting with Streets all the way up to Advanced CarShow.
Let's get things going with the Streets artist, ta2man, our one and only "chopping whore", which impresses us, every month, with good and positive works. For him the hard work sure pays off! This time he nailed the spot with and great looking BMW 1M Coupe!
In the CarShow area we have a new member, TK_tuning(I know he's not the right winer, but the other member didn't replied in the imposed time). Not only he's a new-comer, but he took the cake with a bike chop, yes he chopped a Ducatti .. and a girl!
This got a bit intense in the Advanced CarShow, once again ATC-Design proved himself with a chop that delighted lots of Facebook members, as his artwork crossed many famous pages and now it's time for an exclusivity on PS-Garage!
Enjoy!

Streets chopper: ta2man
Q: How did you ended up on PS-Garage.com, do you remember that? 
A: Well one day a friend of my came over with a program called photoshop and said try this. I did and thought I wonder if you can do car mods on this. Well you can! Got on the web to see if others were also doing this. They were and they were on a forum called PS-G. I became a member breifly then gave up. A year later I came back and I have been here ever since. 

Q: What was your inspiration for this chop? 
A: I think I just have good luck with BMW and I had a very good opponent. 

Q: How long have you been chopping? 
A: Just about 2 years. WOW!!! 

Q: Any future plans for developing your skills? 
A: I am currently applying the skills I have learned to digital art as an extention to what I do for a proffessional living, Tattooing.

CarShow chopper: TKtuning
Q: How did you find out about PS-Garage? 
A: I fond out PS-Garage from Autemo I think, I realy didn't know about this website and that was a really big mistake from me. 

Q: When did you started to virtually modify cars? 
A: I started to virtually modify cars just a bit more than 6 years ago. 

Q: What was your main inspiration for this specific work? 
A: My main inspiration for this work was the girl in this image. She wanted me to make it, like 4-5 month ago, chop or redesign a Ducati for her (before that I choped her car, you can see it here - http://tktuning.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3gm9sm). She eventually chose a 749 model. For me it's a realy old looking bike, at least the normal 749 version. So I finally finished it and I was really happy, so was she (or at least she said that she like it, I'll trust her). I printed it at 50x70 centimeters, put it in a frame and give it to her. That was my way to say good-bye to her. 

Q: We don't usually have chopped bikes, how did you end up with it? 
A: Well it was a different way to express my self I think and I wanted to chop a bike for a long time. So I had a reason and inspiration to do it now...and I did it. I can say that it came out realy nice, my best work and for sure my favourite so far.

Advanced CarShow chopper: ATC-Design
Q: What was the main inspiration for this artwork? 
A: Rusty. Need I say more? We all know of this epicly stance car, it's one of the most famous out there. If I'm perfectly honest, I didn't wan't it to be exactly like rusty - I wanted shiny paint, so the idea of rusty's older, more dignified sister came to mind, and that is essentially how the chop was set in motion. 
From there on my primary objectives were realism and atmosphere, and finally finishing a wet chop - I've tried so many in the past, but so few have been finished. 

Q: How much time did you spent on it? 
A: It's hard to say, getting the backdrop right probably took maybe two or three hours in itself, and that doesn't include searching for it, only the actually modification to it. So the chop overall, I would estimate around... maybe 50 - 60 hours including donor hunting, so a fair bit of time. It's only thanks to the beautiful (lol joke - terrible) brittish weather that I had so much time to spare  

Q:How was the feedback for you work? 
The feedback was mainly positive, there were a few that seemed to hate it - 'it's too low' and 'you've ruined a classic car'. But in general I believe it was well received. For the first time I decided to post my chop on stanceworks forum, where I received some of the most positive feedback I've ever had on a chop, including a comment from the creator of Rusty - Mike Burroughs himself - "I am blown away. I see a few of my pics in there, I am honoured! Seriously, one of the sickest renderings I have ever seen. Mind blown. Desktop'd. And that's saying something, I've never had a desktop on this computer in the year and a half I have owned it." A comment which meant a lot to me, and was great inspiration to continue chopping. Coupled with a few thousand likes across facebook I'd say this is my most successful chop to date, and certainly the most pleasing with some of the best feedback I've ever had . 

Q: What was the most pain in the ass fact when you worked on it, all chops have at least one. 
Jeez - tough one. I'll keep it short and say the rims. Finding any donor of the rims was difficult. Finding ones at the right angle and resolution - a complete nightmare!! Ended up combining several donors and brushing half the rim to get around this. 

Q: What would you change for this artwork? 
I'm not sure that I'd change too much at all - I must say it is one of my favourite chops that I've created. However I think the ground could probably use some more work, to make it look more like it's wet, and some minor tweaks to the rear arch wouldn't go a miss either. But overall I was very happy with this piece, and wouldn't mind driving it myself!

Thanks for everything!

- Dan B.

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