The poor penguin is getting attack by snowballs! I used curves and eases to get the snowballs to move slowly at first and then quickly as they splat down.
-The background I made in flash
-The penguin is an image from online that I color corrected on photoshop
- I made the snowballs, snowball after-poofs, and clouds on photoshop
- I found the snow effect on After Effects and added it in. Its probably too sunny for it to be snowing but I thought it looked cool so woot for snow!
For this assignment I put together a bird's eye view shot of a kids room. There is a plane flying from the ceiling fan and a car race on the floor.
I started by bringing in still pictures in to photoshop: A bed - I looked for a more kid-like bed but I was limited since I needed it to be viewed from straight above
A bed - I looked for a more kid-like bed but I was limited since I needed it to be viewed from straight above
Toy plane
Fan
Toy race Track
Toy cars
Carpet
I used masks (on all but the carpet) to cut out the objects from their original pictures then copy/pasted them to their own layers. The carpet I used the clone stamp to enlarge over the entire area. Then I resized and arranged the images on to the spread and then edited them to look a little more natural. I used the burn tool to make the bed look more 3D. I blurred everything on the floor to give it a feel of being at a greater distance than the fan.
Then I brought all of the layers in to After Effects. First, I set the rotation for the fan. (After setting the anchor point of course) I set the fan as a parent to the rope and the rope a parent to the plane and the plane a parent to its shadow. I added a motion blur to all of these except to the plane because I felt the blur made it to hard to identify. The shadow still has a blur on it. It's also scaled up a few sizes and has a lowered opacity.
The little race cars are each following a motion sketch. They both have motion blurs applied to them. They are magic cars that race on their own! This kid has cool toys.
I started with a Halloween picture of myself as a vampire. I went through and touched up blemishes and other weird spots with the healing brush. Then I went through using the Dodge tool on the face area and Burn tool on my hair, lips, eyeliner and background. I really wanted that pale blown out to give it a vampire feel. I blurred out the background as well as the edges of the photo. After that I sharpened the eyes only to make them pop more. The black eyeliner wasn't quite the way I liked it so I used the blur tool to make it smoother around the eyes. Then I created a mask layer isolating the eyes and saturated the picture to make it black and white with only the eyes in color. Next came the background. I found a picture of a castle wall on google and used it as the background. I used the selection tool to grab as much of the face and hair as I could then applied it to a new layer. Then I put the castle picture on to its own layer. I lowered the exposure on the picture then burned the right edge of it. I went through and blurred the whole picture to make it look more in the background and to blend it with my hair. I had to smudge around the hair to make it look more natural.
