DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING FINAL PROJECT

        

Ating Otobong Melvin Abang 
0333700 
Final Project(Surrealism Artwork)

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Final Project: Part 1-Choose a surrealistic artwork from an artist in the Instagram link provided below and recompose in Adobe Photoshop using Stock Imagery from such stock image foundries (the attached links).
*Submission size: 1920 x 1080 or 1080 x 1920. Recompositing artworks not within the ratio will require cropping/filling in gaps with content aware fill. 


Part 2-Animate it using Adobe After Effects.

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PART 1: Choosing and Recreating A Surrealistic Artwork. 

Week 12 
  In the list of various Surrealist artist, I chose The Instagram artist known as Trash riot. 

• Here are some examples from the Link given in Google Classrooms.

Fig 1.1 Artwork by MarkRyden 

 

Fig 1.2 Artwork by Trash Riot(Chosen Artist). 

Fig 1.3 Artwork by Thomeaston.

After going through, most of the Artworks within the link I chose and visited Trash Riots Instagram page. 

PART 1- RECREATION

Here are the Pictures I Used for my recreation.

Fig 2.0 The Composition I want to recreate.

The reason I chose this was that I wanted to get that 80's feel or vibe to the Recreated work and also I took it as a challenge to get as close to this as close as possible. 

Fig 2.1 Original Image I wanted to use.

Comment: This was the Original Work I wanted to use but the problem and the reason for me not using this was that jacket didn't match the original composition.

Fig 2.2 Picture of Colin Farrell

I finally found a picture that's close to the one that is present with the original and he was wearing a suit and facing a similar position to the original. 

Fig 2.3  Picture Of a woman wearing a scarf  

The only problem I have with this was the direction of her focus which was not really like the original but this was the closest I could get to the original. 

• START OF THE PHOTOSHOP PROCESS

Fig 3.0 Placing the man I want to use or recreate in The overall Composition Photoshop.

Fig 3.1 Placing The woman I want to recreate in the overall Composition In Photoshop.

Fig 3.2  fading out the color Adjusting the Hue and Saturation.

Comment: I Changed the Hue and  Saturation order to get that 80's kind of and Vibe that the Original composition has Which for now would be a black and white feel to it but the original has a Yellowish tint to the black and white feel. 

Fig 3.3 Adding both in the frame 

Fig 3.4 began adding Roses.

•  Roses and leaves I used.

Fig 4.1 A Pink Rose.

Fig 4.2 Roses I used inside the face. 

Fig 4.2 working on extracting the rose. 

Fig 4.4 Hibiscus flower

                                     

Fig 4.5 Leaves

Comment: I decided to replace the leaves with this one because it looked more similar to the Original. 

                                      

Fig 5.1 Final Work(My composition).

Fig 5.2 Reference(Original Composition)

I compared my work with the original I can say I did a good job True the people aren't the same put that's inescapable. 

ANIMATION

The animation process was quite tedious in the sense that I had to animate each flower and the movement. But I figured it out thanks to the help of Mr.Jeffery and Youtube. 

Here is a link to the Video. 

 https://youtu.be/FIjWnlXWdAQ

Fig 6.1   Animating the Roses In After effects 

Fig 6.2 Animating the leaves 

NEW ANIMATION 

Mr. Jefferey and Mr. Martin suggested that I make the faces of the man and the woman to return to the original position and make the leaves and the roses hide within the head or the body. 

Here is the link to the  Final work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNMybqi_hTY       

FEEDBACK AND COMMENT 

Week 9: Mr. Martin and Mr. Jeffery when I introduced my work they were satisfied with it but they commented on the positioning of the Face which I later adjusted it, and also the roses they liked it but the leaves earlier on weren't close to the original one in the picture so I took note of that and planned to change that later on.

Week 10: Online  Week

Week 11: This week was Animation week when we were assigned the task of animating our Composition in After effects  I was quite sick this week but I still attended class regardless, concerning my work Mr. Martin and Mr. Jeffery compared my work with the Original and it was good. I asked them both for advice on the Animation and told them i planned to animate the Roses So they further advised me to make the roses rotate or spin which i did and i liked it. 

Week 12: Mr.Jeffery helped me by taking me through the Ae and showing me the tools to use to achieve the desired effect.