1/10/19-20/10/19 (Week 7 - 9)
Kyra Binti Rizal Hamzah (0337085)
Digital Photography & Imaging
Project 2
Instructions
Project 2A
We were tasked to make a surrealist image.
First I came up with some sketches of ideas. To be honest, it was a bit difficult for me to come up with ideas that fit the topic and made sense.
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| Sketches 1 - A city made of cars( I tried developing this one more. See Sketches 2) A jellyfish made of a plastic bag, a turtle with a dome building as a shell, a cloud jelllyfish. |
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| Sketches 2- I had this idea of making skyscrapers out of photos of roads and using cars to replace window panels. |
Sketches 3- A city made of stationery, a cherry bomb, a tap filling up the ocean(The idea I wound up using) |
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I wanted to create buildings out of streets and cars (As per my sketches in Sketches 1 & 2), and so I began making a mockup of it.
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| Initial manipulation of roads into the shape of buildings. I used free transform and distort to do this. |
It wasn't looking very realistic, so I thought adding the cars to it would help.
Finding photos of cars at the correct angles and perspectives I needed to fit on the buildings, so I borrowed some of my brothers' toy cars so I could take the photos however I wanted.
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| I took a *lot |
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| The cars I added to the buildings for the mockup. |
At this point, I had to make a decision. Although I liked my idea, it didn't seem to look how I imagined; it looked a bit too unreal. Also, it was around this time that it was mentioned that we need to animate our images once completed. If I were to animate this image, the only things I could really animate would be the making the clouds move and making the cars drive. The thing is, I felt that if I made the cars move, it wouldn't really resemble the original idea of the cars representing windows on the buildings.
After a lot of thought, I decided to work on a different idea instead; the ocean being filled from a tap(see Sketches 3).
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| The photo of a sink I chose to use |
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| I masked it and scaled it to the right size and put it into the image along with a picture of the sky. I also masked out the water so that I could replace it with the ocean. I then adjusted the color matching of the tap (forgot to take a screenshot before that, oops) |
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| Photo of the ocean I used; I wanted a photo with lots of waves so that it could look like it would swirl in the sink. |
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| I then added a photo of the ocean and recoloured it a little bit to make it look like it foamed around the tap and where the waves go. |
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| To make it more like the photo is meant to be the ocean I added some beachlike elements like buoys, a lifeguard post, and seagulls, and added some blur and noise to them since some of the photos were clearer than others. |
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| Added some shadows |
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Once all that was done I begun animating!
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| My final piece :D |
Check out the animated version of my piece here https://youtu.be/r3TOtbeBg6Y
