What's Photoshop? Is that a camera store or something? :huh:Okay I thought it was cool, realized it was a photoshopped mantis w/ raptors for jaws, but still thought it was really cool looking. Blue Flash, right? BTW AWESOME writing skills! How long did it take you to come up with that story and edit it???
Just felt like doing something different today. Thought I'd experiment a little. Then I decided I should write that little story for the fun of it. Just made it up as I went along. Ended with a generic HP Lovecraft-inspired ending. Then I decided to do an audio clip as a follow up but I couldn't find a good way to post audio so I embedded it in video. Couldn't stand to leave a still image in the video so I figured out how to make it more interactive with the audio. I had to manually control that lens flair effect using key frames (if that means anything to anybody). Kind of a pain in the butt, but I learned some new things in the process.
No. I just cut and copied the raptor on the left side, resized and rotated it, then copied and inverted on the horizontal plane to create both sides of the mouth. I then blended them in with the face using a layer mask to fade the edges to make a smooth transition. Did a few other things to make it blend better, like slight gaussian blur since the claws had tighter focus than the lower portion of the face. Then added a slight drop shadow underneath. Little things like that can make all the difference.
