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

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 1
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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.

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 2
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step 3 of 11

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 3
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step 4 of 11

finished BKGD.

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 4
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step 5 of 11

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.

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 5
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step 6 of 11

tried the transform tool

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 6
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step 7 of 11

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

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 7
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step 8 of 11

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

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 8
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step 9 of 11

close up

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 9
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step 10 of 11

almost there, trying plastic wrap filter for highlights.

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 10
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step 11 of 11

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

Creation of Hot Dancing: Step 11
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Final result

Creation of Hot Dancing: Final Result

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Comments

avatar still26
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 1012 days ago)
avatar still26
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 1011 days ago)