When Graphic Artists Get Bored... Media Students Write About Their Work.

Many of the images on the video really intrigued me on different levels. From a standpoint of just a pleasing and interesting look to it, like the swimmer to the left. There were images that were slightly witty and creative, things that I would never have thought of morphing or changing: even if I were able to, such as the Earth about to bite the Moon at the middle. There were also images which excelled at a realistic standpoint (in a sense where although you can clearly tell that they are not real, it is hard to tell where the original image ends and the photoshopped portions begin (if that makes any sense)) such as the frog to the right. But the one that I was interested in the most was the most was:

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Appetizing, isn't it?

Yes! I found that this particular image portrays all of the above elements I liked about each photo manipulation. It is incredibly hard to distinguish between the additional changed things and the original: you don't even know what the person used to build from (the kiwi or the rat). It has a nice clean (slightly disturbing, but in a good way) image. It definitely is creative: making me swear off all haired fruits from this day forth.

Now that we have thusly and thoroughly admired said image: it is time... to an-a-lyze! There are quite a lot of possibilities this could be created, with varying degrees of difficulty and technique involved. The person may very well have paved way through an entirely different field of genetic splicing, but assuming that the title of the video holds true, this is highly improbable. What I believe is that said artist must have used the kiwi as a base. Afterwards, he proceeded to cut it into three pieces and arranged accordingly. Afterwards, using the clone stamp tool, the artist shaped the rear area and face to a more mouse-like shape, and used an image of a mouse: skewing the ears, snout (and possibly eyes) to match as best he could to the angle of the kiwi. Maybe the head of the mouse was cut off completely (the shading on the head's features slightly differs from the rear and middle sections). Afterwards, the artist would add the feet (looking at regular mice, the front foot would not naturally be that close to the head, meaning it was most likely added onto this photoshopped piece of work). Then, the artist would finally gradiate a shadow as the second last layer from the background. and use the eyedropper tool to find matching colors to use to create the goo on the last layer before the white background.