Introduction
To celebrate the launch of the Creative Suite 5, Adobe collaborated with Behance to host a national competition to see what people could do with their software. As good fortune would have it, I was selected for two categories, and was also the youngest person to receive an award.
Week 1 - Mother Nature
Prompt: Give your work a huge platform with the Adobe Creative Suite 5. Show everybody what you can create in the '5 Weeks of 5' competition, and highlight the latest features!
Response: My submissions for the Adobe CS5 Five Weeks of Five took over 46 hours in total to complete. I took extensive advantage of CS5’s latest features ranging from puppet warp to content aware fill, and produced two print-sized advertisement pieces.
[Overview.]
Originally my starting texture for my background layer filled up only about 1/6th of the original canvas. I utilized Content Aware to fill the rest of it up. I again ran into a similar situation whilst working with the hat portion of this particular model; the mountain stock photograph which I was using apparently was cut off towards the end. I then took my lasso tool and highlighted the selected area, and then used Content Aware to fill up the gap.
[Content Aware Filling.]
The new bristle tips were a great addition to the overall painting atmosphere expressed in CS5. The organic feeling they demonstrated really helped me out with my painting techniques. I used paint bristles extensively throughout this piece, from painting to blending, to overall texturing.
[CS5 Brush Sets.]
Puppet Warp, is one of the greatest additions to CS5. It allows users to better control 3D perspectives, and gives heightened flexibility whilst working with images as opposed to the previous version of CS. I used Puppet Warp to change perspectives on various aspects of my piece. From giving a pain tube a 3D perspective, to wrapping a squirrel’s tail around a tree, to even adjusting painted regions for a more organic feeling, one can hardly deny Puppet Warps value.
[Pupper Warp Manipulation.]
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64x
Graphics: Intel GMA 4500MHD (integrated)
Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5800
Memory: 4,096MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz
Hard drive: 320GB, 5,400rpm
Chipset: Intel GM45
[Load Comparison CS5 vs. CS4.]
[Final Rendition.]
[Notarized Affidavit Winning Confirmation.]
Week 3 - Serpent of the Sea
Prompt: Give your work a huge platform with the Adobe Creative Suite 5. Show everybody what you can create in the '5 Weeks of 5' competition, and highlight the latest features!
Response: My submissions for the Adobe CS5 Five Weeks of Five took over 46 hours in total to complete. I took extensive advantage of CS5’s latest features ranging from puppet warp to content aware fill, and produced two print-sized advertisement pieces.
[Overview.]
Puppet Warp was used extensively throughout this piece. To get the leviathan shaped water effects, I had to work with a lot of manipulating and bending of elements (which means a whole lot of masking layers compiled upon each other, about 460 to be exact). Each layer was carefully Puppet Warped using specific anchor points to try and replicate water’s organic properties.
[Puppet Warp Manipulation.]
[Final Rendition.]
[Notarized Affidavit Winning Confirmation.]