Now that I have the core of the image in place it’s time to drop in the other players. As I mentioned in the last post there are two additional characters that must be dropped in to represent ‘child’ figures. I am using shots of the same model for each so each element will need to be clipped out from seperate shots, dropped in and have a little shadow added to make it fit within the final piece. But before I do that I want to drop a toy element into the shot (fig.1 – left). Once that is in place it’s time to add a bit of dirt around the base to give it the feel that the wheels have been buried a bit. Once that was done I then dropped in the clipped ‘male’ figure (fig.1 – right) along with a small amount of dirt around the shoes and just a touch of rough shadowing.
fig. 1 – kid and toy
The little ‘girl’ figure is up next (fig.2 – left). Same goes for this one in terms of clipping the modelout and dropping her into the image. Once my final choice on placement was made I added some rough shadowing to get an initial look at how the whole composition was working together.
fig. 2 – little girl and other tweaks
Once all elements were in the shot and placed in their final locations I added additional shadow to the figures and, using the same method, tweaked the dirt around the ‘girl’ to create the illusion of the ground stepping down around her. After looking at the image for a bit I also started realizing that the initial water reflection was bothering me so I wiped it out and created a new one (fig.2 – right). It’s a bit hard to see here but will definitely be more visable in the final image.
Next up – final retouch, addition of tracks behind the toy and a bit more shadowing. Then it’s off to printing and framing for the show.
