The Encounter

After a full week of intense work I finally finished creating my first alien. A lot work was involved prior to the post production process. To create the alien, I shot 5 girls and then blended tehir faces together. I then distorted the face even more to create the alien. The texture on the alien's body is actually water from the beach. Each part of the environment was shot at different locations. The mountains were actually made out of sand at the beach. The planet in the sky was made through Photoshop. I blended four skies together and to get the right formation of clouds. The image was originally black and white. To color it, used the brush tool (set to normal) and painted on an empty layer (set to soft light).