This guide was made for entry: Freeze! In Contest: buffalo
Original image
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Extract the buffalo
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Delete the papers on the behind part of the buffalo by clone tool
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Cut out the behind part, use clipping mask with overlay, color, lighten and multiply options to make it look shining and desaturate
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Extract an area of grass, I'll use it to make the fur on the bison
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Change the color of the grass, now it looks similar to fur
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Extract, distort, blend each piece of "fur" onto the bison
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Paint color on the behind part by clipping mask layer and use color blending option
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Use sharpen tool to make the "fur" looked better
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The small "windows" on the back were made from the tyre of the car
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Make the wires
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Start to make the robot. Every part of this robot will be made from different parts of the cars near the buffalo, I didn't distort much, so they are easily recognized
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The "sword" was drawn by pen tool
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Put the characters on the background, use lens blur to blur out the far scene
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Start to make the dragon. Every parts of this dragon were made from the buffalo statue, with some digital paintings