Spiderman vs. Venom

I'm looking forward to watching Spidey take on Venom in Spiderman 3. But the hoopla surrounding this photo may be a bit presumptuous. I think it's a fake. Or at the very least, it's not a screen capture from the insanely talented fellas at Sony. Spidey looks just fine, my issues are with Venom. He's rendered with an odd combination of Photoshop Blur Filter (which has to be the most used filter with the casual amateur Photoshoping crowd) and straight up simple brush strokes to clean up any washed out highlights. Also, the area surrounding Venom's head looks "off". Not only does it look like it was hand manipulated, but it looks like it is more blurred than his feet. The top of his head is the major offender. Is that some kind of smudge brush or something? Doesn't appear to be a clean composite from a professional. Tisk tisk.



I'm not buying it. Something is very wrong. Photo-realism isn't my strength, but I'm positive that, at the very least, you will not see this exact frame in theaters.