12 Days of Photoshop: Day 5

Day 5: Bring a Photo to Life

             Today's project is to take a photo of some kind, and make the image appear as if it is coming to life. I went big scale with this one and chose to alter a wall mural, specifically, on with whales. I mixed real pictures of whales in poses similar to the ones on the wall, and with a little blending and drop shadows, they started coming off the walls! I also added a few more effects, like the spouting whale, and the water dripping off the side. The water is not the best because I could not find a good picture to use, and I have no idea how to make sloshing water look realistic.

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 4

Day 4: Normal Extremes

             Today's project was to take something normal and make it an extreme situation. For mine, I thought, what if the president got a dinosaur? He IS the president. Presidents deserve extreme pets.

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 3

Day 3: Candy Critter

            Today, we blended an animal and a candy together, making the animal look like it was candy. I made a sweet tarts lizard using the same techniques as when I made that Splat Cat.

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 2

Day 2: True Reflection

                  Today's project was to show the true nature of a picture through changing the shadow or reflection. Mine is symbolic of putting aside your childish nature in adulthood, and how depressing life can feel without it. Despite how the man walking down the street bows his head and walks past the balloon, the child inside years to reach out and grab it.

12 Days of Photoshop Day 1: Identity Change

Day 1: Identity Change

           From now until the end of the year, my class is beginning the dayly photoshop challenge. Today's challenge was to take a product's identity and changing it with another's, perhaps through an ironic pun. For my picture, I swapped part of the YouTube logo with the "2" in U2's logo. The final image looks very believable and is sure to get a few laughs.

Singing Animation

Singing Animation

            For the past two weeks, we have been working on our second animation project. We had to choose a song, recomended 30 sec, and animate the mouth of a picture or drawing to make it sing along to the song. I drew a basic wolf head to act as a base for the different mouth movements, and drew the mouths and eyes seperate so I could add them on later. After I had all the basic mouth positions, I imported all the images into flash, and set the frames up to match the words in the song. The result was a pretty believable animation. However, some of the images in the frames were off center, so the picture shudders, and I'm not sure how to fix it.

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