I like when a project comes in that allows me to apply skills learning via training. This week i was ask to come up with a cover design that show two man, one young and thing, and the older more overweight version of the same man. Using adobe fuse i quickly developed the character below. It took about 45 minutes to an hour to watch the lynda.com training for Fuse while i followed along with my project. This is only the stage one of the project, If approved, i need to bring the characters into the maximo site to ad motion, capture a motion stage i like and bring that to photoshop to continue the work and start the design of the cover. I will continue to update this post to show my progress.
Young man:
Older, overweight man:
Made some changes to the characters weight and clothing. plus i added them to a space within photoshop and added poses. the perspective that man stands on needs work. he is not looking as he is standing on the hardwood floor. I did not adjust this since the way the graphic sits in the cover you do not see his feet.
Since the last post above, many things have changed. I was asked to use several images to create one composition. I was asked to take beach landscape with a pre-made 3d rendition of two characters plus add a new more ornamental mirror frame that would match the perspective of the one in the 3d rendition.
I began with two mockups with two different backgrounds
So to recap, these are the elements to use for the new composition:
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I took two different roads for this project, the first one was to use the puppet tool to manipulate the ornamental mirror to bend and match the black mirror in the pre-purchased 3d rendition.
I also had to add more beach to the composition, along with more shadows and rocks to the left hand side.
What i liked about this approach was that it helped create more of a "dream/ looking in to the past" mood for the composition. Working with the puppet tool is a very manual approach that did not deliver perfect curves for the mirror, if you look close you will see the mirror is "wavy" which i felt i was a happy accident that helps with the overall composition been that the overweight man is looking at what he used to look like in a vision.
Road two. With this choice i would just convert the mirror to a 3D object in photoshop. This option, in my opinion, allowed for far more detail and control over the ornamental mirror.
Overall this project took 3.5 hours to complete, option/road 1 is the one they selected. I liked the challenge and i am happy to have used both options to achieve the same visual composition with two different results.