From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Adding power and motion with Liquify

Adding power and motion with Liquify

From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Adding power and motion with Liquify

In this chapter, we're going to take our silhouette, which is quite obviously standing on the ground. And we're going to put him in flight, as you see here, as well as get rid of his ears because, after all, Jack Kirby's original human torch doesn't have ears when he catches on fire, they go away. And we're going to do all this using a combination of three distortion features namely, Liquefy, Puppet Warp, and a Perspective transformation. And it's really fascinating how you can combine these three features, in order to convey a sense of power. So, I'm going to go ahead and switch back to my image so far. And because I want to apply my distortions as dynamic modifications, I'm going to convert this image into a smart object. So I'll go ahead and right-click somewhere inside the image window, using my rectangular marquee tool, which you can see is selected toward the top of the tool box. And then I'll choose convert to smart object. And now I'll go up to the filter menu and choose to…

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