Creature Comforts - Photo Composite / Mashup Creature / Animal Hybrid
Your task is to to take a series of images of creatures / objects and mash or combine them to design a creature or character that has never existed before.
Ideally, you should:
For more ideas, do your own search on:
Ideally, you should:
- Combine a minimum of 7 - 10 pictures
- Use masking and other selection techniques to create your composite creature
- Name your creature and create a background or environment in which it exists
- Post your assignment on your portfolio site in a manner that shows the final product and all of the source images used to create it.
- For higher marks, create a bio page that introduces your creature to the world in an informative and entertaining manner.
For more ideas, do your own search on:
- Animal hybrid
- Animal hybrid photoshop
- Animal human hybrid (be careful, some of these images a little on the disturbing side)
Cool Ideas and Resources
According to the site: Mythical creatures have been part of legend and folklore since the dawn of time. These imaginary creatures are often hybrids, or a combination of two or more animals such as a centaur (human and horse) or a minotaur (human and bull).
In this tutorial we'll take inspiration from these fantastical creatures and transform a portrait into a terrifying horned beast. You'll discover how to blend animal and human anatomy, then add convincing skin textures to really pull off the effect. Let's get to it…
To see the full tutorial (you can even download the files and follow along)
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-mythical-creature-photo-manipulation--psd-6369
In this tutorial we'll take inspiration from these fantastical creatures and transform a portrait into a terrifying horned beast. You'll discover how to blend animal and human anatomy, then add convincing skin textures to really pull off the effect. Let's get to it…
To see the full tutorial (you can even download the files and follow along)
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-mythical-creature-photo-manipulation--psd-6369
Animal Prints / Textures
Free Photoshop tutorial we’ll be covering the techniques used to extract and apply textures from one animal to another
https://blog.photoshopcreative.co.uk/general/how-to-make-an-animal-hybrid-in-photoshop/ |