We get an image from a client who requests we turn him into a zombie in the photograph. This is one of those times where it took teamwork to complete this assignment. I wasn’t originally supposed to be involved in this assignment,  i’ll explain in my next blog, but I had so many ideas pop up about how to complete this assignment that I requested I be part.

First we decided who was doing what, Alec was supposed to zombify the person in the photo, my co worker Lisa went back and forth with the client and I would provide the animation effects. I decided to have zombie arms pop out of the ground and be clawing to grab something. This was a challenge as it involved using real arms and nothing drawn. To accomplish this I first went online to find stock photos of arms. I needed to find the arms in the right positions to make the illusion work. I considered photographing my own arm but I only had the day to finish the assignment. After I found the right arms I edited them to the right scale and used the same filter in all the arms to make them look dead and rotten.

The very last part needed was a fire effect, Unfortunately for me I don’t know how exactly to create this effect and didn’t have the time to learn it so I had to use an effect I found online. In think if we had more time I would’ve liked to play with the lighting to make the fire look more realistic but am happy about the way this assignment turned out.