Monsters Gifs
Guidelines for Monsters in Motion:
- You will begin by opening an 8 x 10 inch, 300 resolution, document in Photoshop. It can be in landscape (10 x 8) or portrait (8 x 10) orientation.
- Take a "selfie" in Photobooth, drag it into Photoshop. Resize the picture, but DO NOT DISTORT IT. Fill the entire document. Do not leave white space.
- Your monster may look like almost any kind of monster you want to make. Do not use the same images that we used in the class demonstration, and do not make the exact same kind of monster we already made.
- Make a folder called "Yourname Monster" to save your jpegs in.
- Every time you make a change, save a jpeg in the folder.
- You must have at least 16-20 different steps (something must change in every step). On the last day of this project we will make our monsters into animated GIFs.
- You may make your monster look like a zombie, demon, vampire, werewolf, ghost, or any other sort of monster you can imagine.
- You may use any photos online to combine with your photo to make a monster, including: animal parts (horns, teeth, eyes), textures (bark, peeling paint, rust, lichen), skulls. Look for high resolution images!
- Do not use existing pictures of monsters, masks, costumes, or any kinds of drawings to make your monster.
- In the class demonstration, we did not clean up our edges while we worked to save time. In your own projects, your edges should look smooth and clean. Take the time to make your layer masks look good. Sloppy work is not acceptable.
- Use any of the techniques we covered in the demonstration: blending modes, color adjustments, image warping, removing facial features, adding animal features, liquify adjustments, changing background, etc.
- You will need to include: 1) one layer mask, 2) one layer with a blending mode, 3) one layer with a color adjustment and mask applied, 4) use of the clone stamp tool somewhere, 5) use of the liquify tool somewhere, 6) use of transform>warp somewhere, 7) an added feature (from an animal, insect, etc.).
GIF Instructions:
1. Open a new 8" x 10", 300 resolution document in Photoshop. 2. Drag in your jpgs one at a time, in order, pressing enter after each image you drag in. 3. Go to Image-> Image Size 4. Check "Resample Image" Make sure "Constrain Proportions" is unchecked. Change the resolution to 300, the dimensions to 4" x 5", press OK 5. Go to Window -> Timeline
6. Click on the button called "Create Frame Animation" 7. Turn off all the eyeballs for all layers, except the "Background" layer, and layer one. 8. Click on the New Frame button. (its at the bottom of the timeline panel, to the left of the trash can) 9. Turn on the eyeball for layer 2. 10. Repeat steps 8 and 9, until you have a new frame for every layer 11. Change the time for each frame as you choose. Press the space bar to play the gif, adjust the timing if its too fast or too slow. Press space bar to stop playing the gif. 12. Change the looping options to "forever" 13. To save, go to File -> Save for Web 14. Change the looping options to forever, if they are not already 15. Click Save 16. Rename the file yourname_monster 17. Press Save again 18. Turn in to the Google Drive, and post on your weebly page. Make sure you check Lightbox to "ON" or it wont play on your website. Please post the jpg of your last step next to your gif. 19. You do NOT have to save the photoshop file you just made. Close the document, choose "don't save" |
Competencies (12pts)
- Pick one layer that you used a blending mode on. Which blending mode did you choose? What effect did it have?
- Pick one image that you used an adjustment layer on. What adjustment layer did you use? What did it do to the image?
- Pick one image where you used a layer mask. What did the layer mask do or how did you use the layer mask?
- Pick one image you used the warp tool on. What was the image and what did the warp tool do?
- Pick one image you used the liquefy tool. Where/what image did you use it on and what effect did the tool have?
- Did you recreate the monster you initially sketched? If yes, were you successful? If not, why did you change your mind about the monster you made?