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A Work in Progress: Emperor Toss
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This guide was made for entry:
Emperor Toss
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free falling
Original image
step 1 of 9
3d corridors wireframe
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Corridor rendered and blurred for background
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- Created hole in floor using 2 ellipticals, one gray, one black.
- Overlay some of my own texture for the edge
- Used elliptical tool for lights, adding external glow
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step 4 of 9
Snapped a few shots of my own Star Wars robes to use for the Emperor using a similar pose as the reference statue.
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step 5 of 9
Trimmed up the statue and inverted it to simulate falling backward. But the Emperor has no clothes, let's fix that.
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step 6 of 9
I pulled apart the robe photos and pieced together the clothing using the puppet tool.
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step 7 of 9
Took a few shots of my trusty 12" Darth Vader action figure...he breathed on me when I put his helmet on. Bad Darth, bad...
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step 8 of 9
Needed a little force lightning action, found some free ones at DeviantArt.
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step 9 of 9
Imported the .PSD into Lightroom for the final coloring, highlights, dodging and burning for the final version.
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Final result
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