Process Post

I have neglected posting about my coursework. It is done! Before I reveal the final set, here is a spam of process images :D

Paper Tiger

So with the paper tiger I started out with a simple cut-out. The background was made using crumpled paper on an overlay (a Photoshop layer style) over torn pieces of paper that I had pasted together. I made a layer mask of the shape and of the words and left it alone in favour of the other idioms. 

Eventually, I came back to it because I needed to adapt it to fit the set, which had finer details than the currently smooth cut-out curves. Upon Mrs Tan's advice I added fur. I also changed the colours a bit and, to make it look like part of the set, replaced the see-through text with black and shifted the entire thing into the centre.

Tempest in a Teapot

I had a harder time doing the teapot. I searched in my images for something I could use and found dubious storm clouds. The sea and the rest were photographed over the course of several months, which was  probably part of the reason why I found it more difficult to put them together. I was quite dissatisfied with the colours, too. In the end, I scrapped the storm clouds in the teapot so I could make the teapot look like a set.

Elephant in the Room

I did the elephant the last, which is why I went straight to the white space for the elephant. Most of the tweaking was the done on the background (although there is a glaringly obvious attempt to use the front view of the elephant, which didn't turn out well because I couldn't manage to add black details that actually looked acceptable, and so would have compromised the set). 

By the way, I am disproportionately proud of my background, which comprises a flower wallpaper that I scanned in and also pictures from around my home. The reason for my affection is the fact that I used a tutorial to automatically tile the pictures of the rooms, which in hindsight was quite unnecessary but still cool.

Castle in the Sky

Here is the castle which readers should be most familiar with. Other than overlaying the picture with bricks in various parts, I used the cut-out Photoshop filter and played with different opacities. These are several variations (out of several dozen) for illustration purposes. I seem to have abused the digital nature of my coursework, judging by all the pictures with barely any variation to them. 

The process post is done! The final set is coming up soon! :D