Real Head, Fake Body Sample

Here are the steps followed in creating the Read Head, Fake Body sample. Of course, you might be able to skip many of these steps. Or, you might have to include other steps in order to complete your work.

STEP 1 – FINDING IMAGES (20 minutes)

This step is very important and not as easy as it looks. There are three key objectives:

• The image of the face needs to be large. This way, when editing is done and it is sized down, it will seem nice and smooth.
  
  
• Images must physically fit together. Head of each image should be facing the same direction.
  
  
• To have an interesting final product, one needs to merge two images that work well together. This is where originality comes in.

I have chosen to work with Bart Simpson and Albert Einstein. They are opposites in ways and I feel that the final product might be funny.

Here are the images I have chosen to work with:

STEP 2 – BODY’S BACKGROUND (25 minutes)

The head is on a black background. Instead of cutting around the head with great detail, I have decided to make the background around Bart Simpson black. This is long and tedious work but it’ll be worth it in the end.

Here is the result of this work:

STEP 3 – CUT OUT HEAD (15 minutes)

I now cut around Albert Einstein’s head to remove all objects around him. One problem that I noticed was that the hair on the right side would look a little strange. If I had more time, I would work with this but for this project, this will have to do.

Result of this step:

STEP 4 – MERGING THE TWO IMAGES (5 minutes)

I now copied the head and pasted it into the body image. By setting the background to black, the head’s frame is not visible. I had to resize several times to get the desired head to body ratio. I was happy to leave the head a little bigger than it would be.

Result of this step:

STEP 5 – HAND TO FRONT (10 minutes)

The previous step lead us to having the head in front of the hand and slingshot. I therefore reselected the hand and slingshot area from the original Simpson picture and brought that into the picture.

Selection of hand and slingshot:

Result of this step:

STEP 6 – TOUCH UPS (10 minutes)

I now worked on minor touch ups. I also relocated the header and the text bubble. The header was changed from “Underachiever” to “Overachiever”.

Result of this step:

STEP 7 – GRAYSCALE (1 minute)

I new when I started that the colour of the cartoon might look funny with the black and white head of Einstein. I therefore switched the image from colour to grayscale. This was done using photoshop. (Many programs can do this but Paint cannot.)

Result of step: