Human Animal Hybrid

by -- かわいい PRiNCEü Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:37 am

This tutorial attempts to show how to blend a human and animal face.

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Selection of compatible photos with similar quality and lighting is a good first step toward making any successful chop. I found this dog photo to start with.

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I then found a picture of Paul Walker and figured Dog-Walker those two gotta go together.

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I placed the photo of Walker over the Dog and lowered the top layers opacity to around 50% then (control-T) to transform the Walker layer and moved, resized and rotated till I go the dog and human eyes to align and look about right.

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I turned of the human layer and duplicated the dog layer so I could preserve the original file should I screw up. I started working on the duplicate dog layer to clone and heal over the dogs nose and mouth so I had a clean fur area to work with. The end result of this cloning came out like this.

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I turned on the human layer and added a layer mask to hide most of the face and leave the eyes and nose. I decided the original human mouth was too large so I masked this out also. I start out using a black brush at 100% opacity to roughly mask all the areas I want hidden and then as I get closer to a finished result I begin lowering the opacity of the brush I use on the mask layer to help feather the results and make the masking more subtle.
The eyes and nosed wound up being masked like this.

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Since the mouth needed to be resized, I duplicated the human layer and disabled the layer mask. I changed the layer opacity to 50% and used Free Transform (control-T) to shrink and move the mouth into position. I then enabled the layer mask and repainted the entire mask to reveal only the mouth portion as shown in this image.