A Work in Progress: Hot Dancing

This guide was made for entry:
Hot Dancing
In Contest:
melted

step 1 of 11

First thing was to mask out figures

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step 2 of 11

next I started to paint out bkgd. did not use cloning tool, just sampled colors and painted with soft brush.

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step 4 of 11

finished BKGD.

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separated parts of figures to be warped and made to look melting.
made several copies in case i didn't like the steps I was taking, since I was not sure how I'm going to proceed with this step.

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tried the transform tool

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moved dancers toward bottom of frame and masked out parts I was going to melt.

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More melting using liquify and puppet warp, tried to make some kind of "splash" with red ribbon, but I didn't like it.

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close up

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almost there, trying plastic wrap filter for highlights.

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painted with hard black brush for more water/ice like appearance.

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Final result

Comments

still26 says:

My goodness gracious I kiss your toes for this phantasmagorical step by step instruction tool. This is mind boggling for beginners (like me) and your talent and imagination just blew me away. THANK YOU ...how long did it take for your to do this?

(5 years and 1043 days ago)

still26 says:

I keep coming back to your sbs. Can you provide a link that you use to extract hair? That drives me to the brink of insanity when I work with hair (and then always give up). Thank you

(5 years and 1042 days ago)

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