hybrid animal

The strongest technical aspect of this assignment was my use of the clone pattern tool and the opacity option.  In order for the two animals (dolphin and kitten) to combine to be something realistic the animal needed a similar texture between the two. I chose to use the fir of the kitten on the tail and face of the dolphin so that the face wouldn't look as if it was just a head placed on the body.  The opacity tool allowed me to work with the actual highlighting of the dolphins features so that I wasn't creating a non dimensional animal. The weakest technical aspect of this assignment was the use of the masking tool.  Before the directions were made to mask out what we didn't want to include in the animal I permanently eliminated the surrounding of the animals.

The easiest part of the project was adding in the background. I knew from the feeling of my animal that I was terrified by its presence. In order to convey my emotions for the species I created I searched for dark threatening environments that would take away from the animal itself. The hardest part of this assignment was to blend the tail into the body of the kitten.  I struggled to make the clone tool have the same style fur on the tail as the read end of the kitten yet it still looks a little bit off.

The objective of the assignment was to create a hybrid or morphed animal that shares features of both animals.  I strived to complete this goal by not only putting the head of a dolphin on a cat but giving the dolphin the cats fur.  I wanted the animal or the Ditten as I call it to look natural.  The realism of the result actually terrifies me.  If I were to change anything in this assignment I might use an animal that didn't have a tail because it was actually very difficult to work with adding that in to appear natural.