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Creating a mutant tiger

Creating a mutant tiger

he's not a creative, but he understands what I do. And he made the passing comment (laughs) that "wow, you're always on the prowl." And he was talking about creatively speaking, but his very act of saying that so I'm kind of pulling in all this reference. And then, I like to create reference for myself to help guide my proportions more than anything. In general, I know what a tiger looks like, but looking at real world reference is good. And then I go to Photoshop and I do a really bad Photoshop job, as shown here. And by the way, the PSD file's in the file, so you can see actual PSD file I set up. And this is about the worst Photoshop job you could do. But, I was kind of cherry pickin', I wanted that stereotypical mouth, so I took a mouth from one reference image of a tiger, I took the profile, the head from another. I took the eyes from another and in this case, he's a mutant tiger so he has three eyes. And then I liquified it just to make it look a little more fierce. And I didn't…

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