Dezeen

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Give it a look. It’s updated multiple times throughout the day most of the time, so give it a look and look often.

Final Images

Finally, after two weeks, here are my final images. They took some time and definitely a lot of patience, but in the end I’m pretty happy with how they turned out.

The image of the snake in the water was by far the most difficult. I guess it was so hard because I had to copy and paste tiny portions of the snake’s body and then distort it in order to create what you see. I then had to try and create some convincing splashes where the snake meets the water. Maybe even more difficult than that was making the boat’s wake, but in the end I think it’s looks good enough.

I also had some help with creating a greater perception of depth at the Digital Output Center where I got some good advice on using gradients to darken and lighten areas.

Anyway, here is the image in its completed form on my computer. The printed version uses the gradients I explained, but the image I am uploading doesn’t as I did that final editing on a computer at the DOC.

Might not look like it, but this was waaay tough.

My next photo is the image of a dinosaur towering over a Denny’s where a squad of plastic army men are converging. This was a much more straightforward task, it wasn’t easy, but I knew how to do it.

Certain things about this image that were particularly difficult were firstly, erasing the power lines in front of the dinosaur. This was just a very time consuming thing to do. I’m sure there must of been an easier way to do it, but it was unknown to me. Secondly, I had to distort the army men to a point where it appeared as though they were standing on the pavement. I then copied them and darkened the duplicate to make the shadow. This too had to be arranged in a convincing way.

One thing I particularly like about this image is the the smoke coming from the dinosaur’s mouth and the army man who is partially burned. I think the relationship is kind of interesting as there is no evidence that the dinosaur really lit the guy on fire, rather, it is implied.

My third image remained as it was in an earlier post of mine.

Source Photos

Here are my source photos that I eventually turned into my final images.

Project I

For this project, which is to be a series of three images based on the idea of “Imagining the Impossible Dream”, I have decided to try and depict a monster rampaging through downtown Vancouver.

A week ago, I decided that I would do a narrative for these images. I had the idea that the first image would show the monster in the city, the second would show a helicopter baiting the animal with a piece of meat and the last image would be the helicopter leading it out of the city. Now, I’ve changed my mind about the piece, maybe a little late, and I think I would rather just have three photos of the occurrence without narrative.

This is because the narrative communicated in the series isn’t that interesting. Also because, I think I could really use a variety of imagery if there wasn’t a rigid narrative, as I think I would end up having to recycle images to communicate the story.

Anyway, I did complete one image entirely and got started on the others. The two unfinished ones though are going to be scraped and I’m going to have to start again. This means I’m going to have a lot of work in these next couple of days if I want to use the Digital Output Center.

Here is my first image, tell me what you think and how it could be improved. Thanks!

I'll upload the process this following week.