A Work in Progress: The Great Gastropoda Escape



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Original image


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To Make the Sky I used this photo of sum plants growing near my house (Taken with a simple sure shot I carry with me 6.0 mega pixels)

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 1

step 2 of 18

Picture of a golf cart pathway at a golf course.. taken with same camera

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 2

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my photo I used for eyes

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 3

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my photo of sun in marsh water reflection

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slug picture I took in Seattle, they are HUGE.. used it to create Martha.. to represent the mutated Snail

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 5

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Slug I used to make george my photo

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 6

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masked out the sky and source and placed the plant picture behind it

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 7

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radial blur the source (duplicate first) and flip
this will make sky streaks

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 8

step 9 of 18

Go through the source photo and remove all humans (they are very distracting if they are not the subject of the image) they're clothing and heads draw to much attention away from other subject matter if they are not the focus... use clone and cut and paste with the eraser tool to clean the image so the fun stuff can begin

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 9

step 10 of 18

blend the golf course into the bottom of the image and
add the snail, retain some of the stone surface it's crawling on to add texture to the cement golf walk way

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Step 10

step 11 of 18

blending three of the pictures to make the sky.. using opacity filters

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Make the NO Trespassing signs.. use pen/shape tool to make the rectangles (curved corners) use one of the blue light towers to be the sign

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step 13 of 18

add George and all the signs.. bevel emboss (government offices always go over board with no trespassing signs)
start adding shading

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step 14 of 18

make the tags with a simple rectangle then shear and burn

use shape pentagon to make the tag hooks

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Make simple talk bubbles with marque tool oval, just white paint bucket them then add a black stroke

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step 16 of 18

simple sound build text

Use stroke and text warp to reshape
then add emboss/bevel

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add eyes to slugs with erase and a very soft brush

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all the shading done with burn and black ovals that are Blurred with Gauss

Process making the genicorpi logo

overall work shading everything

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Final result

Creation of The Great Gastropoda Escape: Final Result

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