Asset Creation

For the asset manipulation, I mostly used this technique where I colour-picked close colours of the object I would be enlarging and used the brush tool to draw on patches next to it to expand the asset's size. Then to blend it in I would use the clone stamp tool and sometimes the healing brush tool. Some examples of where I used this technique is in manipulating the clouds and creating the main scenes' background.

For assets like the dove, the apple, the blue eye, and the woman's head and face I simply cut out the images using masks selected by the magic wand tool and adjusted them using the brush tool to add and remove parts of the picture. 

Regarding the assets for scene 5, I cut out the outer part of the eye along with the white and the iris of the eye and merged that into one layer. Then I cut the inner part of the eye and made a duplicate. in one of the two versions, I painted over everything using the clone stamp tool making the whole background blue. In the other version, I selected all the clouds using the magic wand tool and created a mask. There I refined the clouds by removing any extra bits and manipulating the clouds using the manipulation technique mentioned at the start. Then I positioned the blue later at the back, the clouds' layer in the middle, and the last layer at the top and I put them all in one artboard, ready to use for the animation.

When creating the man's asset I used the man from the 'Son of Man' painting and merged his face with the face of 'the art of living' painting by removing the apple, putting the face behind the hole that was left, adjusting its size to match the existing features such as the eyebrows, then slightly colour correcting the colours and finally merging everything and using the manipulation technique mentioned above to adjust the whole thing to a good state.

When creating the background for scenes 2 to 5 I took the sea background from the 'Le double secret' painting removed the woman and her face from it and used the content aware fill to fill in the empty space. Then I continued adding more detail by using the manipulation technique mentioned at the start of this document. After the sea was done I decided to do the same thing to the sky from the 'Son of Man' painting and then merge it with the sea. Before doing so I adjusted the brightness, contrast and colours to match the ones of the sea.

The assets in scene 1 were done very similarly to the rest of the assets. Here I selected all the large men in the image one by one and copied and pasted them into new layers. Then I adjusted the ones which were not whole by duplicating parts from other men which were in a close angle and shade to them and merged them together and corrected their colour using the manipulation technique mentioned at the start. Then once I was done I merged them all into one layer. Then regarding the house, I removed the big men used and used the content aware fill to quickly fill in the empty spaces. Then I polished up the image using the same tools and technique describes at the top of this document.