For the AGP Digital Imaging Course we had to create our version of a meme. Wanted to create something different and to challenge myself. So, decided to create a hybrid of several ideas: Banksy Pulp Fiction, Pepper Spray Cop and McKayla is not impressed. | Steps were: 1) Get the Pepper Spray Cop's arm to point up rather than down. Cut and rotated his original arm then applied warping and selective cutting of original arm to sit right.2) Get rid of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction. The gun and hand was the main challenge. Had to clone stamp from Jackson's shirt and tie to replace the hole left on Travolta's body. 3) Create the graffiti effect. Used threshold layers then found a brick wall image. 4) Cut out a frame for the 'art work'. 5) Find a suitable gallery image. In many ways this was the biggest challenge. Many images required a lot of playing around with perspective, which just wasn't working. Once I found this one it was relatively easy to cut out bits of the background (woman on chair, head) to go in front of the Banksy. 6) Add McKayla. Pretty straightforward. Only a bit of blur/ smudge required to sit her in. 7) Adjust levels/ colours on composite images. Just needed a bit of warming to sit the originals in more with the colours of the b/g pic. 8) Add the text. Classic image macro text: Impact font in capitals, white with black layer stroke applied. 9) Crop the image and you're done! |
0 Comments
Had lots of fun reinventing Velazquez' The Triumph of Bacchus for Adobe Digital Imaging course. Can you spot Tupac?
Couldn't resist sharing something I worked on earlier this year. It was at the heart of the Harlem Shake craze and we decided to do our own version as part of the Media course I teach. It was a great experience and fitted perfectly with the course content as we cover meme culture and copyright. The students got really involved, directing and editing it themselves. Our college director even got involved... that's him dressed as Santa!
Alone in Berlin trailer from Simon Aldcroft on Vimeo. Really loved the idea of this challenge straight away. Think it is something that could be used in so many ways and taps into so many key skills ( apart from the technical skills) such as summarising, selecting key information, storyboarding, writing good copy/ scripts. Simon walk cycle from Simon Aldcroft on Vimeo. This was by far the most daunting challenge for me. i've never done any animation before and my fear of drawing loomed large.
|