He Came With the Couch

 This animation was taken from a children's drawing posted on Artsonia. The kids read a book called He Came With the Couch and drew creatures to go along with the story. The artist that made this said "My creature wus on a cloud it mad strorms.It wus raning."

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I decided to make it look like there was lightning shooting out of his head. The most difficult part of completing this piece was making all the different layers for each frame of the .gif and recreating the background when the lightning was erased. I learned how to use the paintbrush tool efficiently, using the Alt key to easily sample colors from the eye dropper tool.

Surprise!

This was an interesting assignment that covered a lot of ground in Photoshop. This was my first real time working with this program versus Corel, so I guess it was pretty successful. The liquefy tool was difficult to work with at first without completely distorting the picture. It was also hard to make the jaws and the pancakes look cohesive, and they still aren't at the point that I'd like them to be. There's still a big color difference between the two. I would also make the mouth bigger. The most important thing in this project was using shortcuts to make the work more efficient.