Kelsi Richardson Art_210

Using the works of Irina Wernin as an inspiration, I created one short MorphX animation of myself in two separate periods of my life; one as an infant and one more recently as an adult. Using both photos to create my animation, I went to Windows in Adobe Photoshop and clicked on timeline and set up my pictures at 2 seconds intervals with a cross-fade transition in between. 

I chose a famous photograph of two popular actresses Cara Delevingne and Rihanna and combined myself with this image. The goal was to make the inclusion of myself seamless. I chose the tannest image of myself and used the pen tool to trace only my face so that I could blend myself with Rihanna. Then using image adjustments and opacity levels, I was able to Warp, Distort, Scale and use Perspective to get my face as close as a match to Rihanna, next playing with the levels of hue/saturation, color balance, and exposure I blurred my image trying to seamlessly play the part of chilling with Cara. 

Placing myself in an environment where I have never been, I paid close attention to the cutting and cleaning details by using the pen tool to trace myself out of an original image to then copy and paste it into the new image of friends.Then I played around with the image adjustments and transformations such as Warp, Scale, Skew, Distort, and Perspective. I also had to flip the original image of myself horizontal to be placed on the lefthand side of the picture. Next I paid close attention to lighting and shadows, as well as my hue/saturation and exposure.