A month ago, was released in theaters the film Avatar. James Cameron's masterpiece that has dug out the competition without too much trouble winning the first position for a long time.
Today I'll show you how you can create a Navi starting from your photos.
Navi is a character marked by a slightly bluish tiger skin. on their faces and on parts of the body are small blue lights. The morphological appearance of the face is characterized by a broad flat nose, large eyes of yellow / green and elongated ears. The body however is much more slender than ours, are about 3 feet tall and muscular is not exactly balanced with the height except for the trapeze pronunciato.Ora much that we understand what are the things to change we're going to act on our photos. You can try to start with one face and then extend throughout the body.
PHASE I: we modify the form (nose, eyes, ears)
- Upload your image on photoshop
- Filter -> Liquify
- With the tool "alter forward" (W) go to widen the eye area to make them larger (similar to the manga)
- At this point the base sopostatevi the sides of the nose and always go to widen
- Proceed as follows to the tip and make it straight. If you need to stretch the nose slightly down.
- Now we proceed by taking the tip of the ears and pulling up slightly
- Once an agreeable result confirmed everything with "OK"
PHASE II: selection and blue skin.
- now select the tool "brush" (B) (make sure you have the primary color set to black) and by the way, "Quick Mask" (Q) go select all part of the body that you want to color.
- I recommend you do a rough selection and then, inverting the colors from primary to secondary (black to white) to go to remove the excess.
- Take the brush of the size of the iris and head clear of the two irises.
- Now back in normal mode (Q) and note that the selection was made
- Select -> Inverse
- Copy (ctrl + c) and paste (ctrl + v) so to produce a new layer with only a selected part
- Now with the new Layer solezionata press ctrl + U (Hue / Saturation), select "color" and set the hue and saturation to 208 to 34. these parameters change according to the image you are using and then try to go a little eye shades and achieve as close as possible to that of Navi.
- Using the tool "burns" set to "midtones" and an exposure of 45% going to draw lines on the skin
- Here I recommend you also darken slightly obra tip of the nose to make it more pronounced. and also darkened lips.
PHASE III: The lights
- Now create a new layer (Shift + Ctrl + N)
- Take the brush (B) with small size (5-7) and hardness of 100% to go with white paint dots on the body.
- Once this is done go to the blending level, enable and set the outer glow a bluish color, size and extension 7 9 (values \u200b\u200bthat change slightly depending on the size of the brush that you used) dates and "OK"
PHASE IV:
eyes - back to the background layer (you should duplicate it) and using the tool "fencing" set to "lights" or "halftone" go to lighten the iris of the eye.
- Create a new layer (Shift + Ctrl + N)
- Take the brush and with a yellowish color go at degl'iridi
- Now go to set a 'opacity 80% and the method set "colors"
PHASE V: Tribals
- If you want you can enter one or more tribal as you like.
- Then download an image that contains a tribal and import the project (between the level of light and the skin color)
- If you have a white background you can remove it simply by setting the blending mode to "Linear Burn"
- Now put the opacity to about 30% and place it where you prefer longer
- Once positioned, take the instrument "Smudge" and go to give a shape a bit more realistic, as if it were tattooed on the skin.
END: and here we have our body transformed into ships.
This is an example done fairly quickly so it is not precise and not so nice ... but if you do it with care and attention will be much better.
