A Work in Progress: Emperor Toss



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Emperor Toss
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Original image


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3d corridors wireframe

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 1
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step 2 of 9

Corridor rendered and blurred for background

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 2
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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

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 3
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Snapped a few shots of my own Star Wars robes to use for the Emperor using a similar pose as the reference statue.

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 4
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Trimmed up the statue and inverted it to simulate falling backward. But the Emperor has no clothes, let's fix that.

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 5
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I pulled apart the robe photos and pieced together the clothing using the puppet tool.

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 6
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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...

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 7
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Needed a little force lightning action, found some free ones at DeviantArt.

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 8
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Imported the .PSD into Lightroom for the final coloring, highlights, dodging and burning for the final version.

Creation of Emperor Toss: Step 9
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Final result

Creation of Emperor Toss: Final Result

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