Hybrid Animal

     The strongest piece of my work is the mixture of my three animals. I started off with a bird and then I added a dog ear on its head, I like it because it doesn't really look like a dog ear so it’s sort of a guessing game. Then, I added an elephant trunk on top of the bird’s beak. I like that part because when I changed the color to a light red it almost looked real. Lastly, I added a fish tail and changed the color to a mixture of blue and yellow. I like the animals I choose because they're all really different. For instance a fish lives in water and an elephant lives in the wild. The realness of my project can be improved. I could improve this by blending more or changing the colors of the added on animals to match the actual bird. I feel like my idea of the animals I choose was good but it doesn't look like a real animal.

     To create my work I used the layer mask and clone stamp to seamlessly create a hybrid creature out of 3 or more animals. I added my three pictures of the animal I wanted to mix, it was important that I choose pictures that was very large that way when I went to combine them it wouldn't look very blurry. Next, I positioned the animal and lowered the opacity so I could see through and make sure the animal was where I wanted it and upped the opacity back up. Then I applied a layer mask, a black paint brush and erased all the parts of the animal I didn’t want. For instance, I erased the entire fish expect for the tail because that was the only part I wanted.

    The easiest part about this project was choosing the animals, I feel like I love animals so I had a lot of options. I didn't really have to think about three animals, it came to me quickly. The difficult part about this project was getting it to look real. I had a hard time finding pictures that all faced sideways, I couldn't use a picture of a dog that was facing front on a sideways bird. Also, choosing the color to match the bird was hard because it was more than one color.

I demonstrated the objective of this project by using the layer mask and clone stamp to seamlessly create a hybrid creature out of 3 or more animals. The goal of the project was to mix three animals together, which I did, a bird, dog ear, fish tail and elephant trunk. If I could do this project again I would start off with a panda instead of a bird. I wish I could do this project several times because there's so many animals so the possibilities are endless. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest I'd rate my effort a 9 just because I could always try harder. I tried my best to make the hybrid animal look real, although it didn't come out great my effort was still there.