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Creating a ridiculous tsunami in 8ish steps....

by Craig Henry - January 11, 2006 / 5:54pm View more articles

So what's better than being stuck on an island with 1,000 bikini-clad women, drinking martinis and soaking your unbelievably chiseled features with sunshine? Photoshop!

So recently a client of ours wanted some natural disaster imagery made for their site. We decided that some things are better displayed through overdramatization. Thus, we constructed our "tsunami scene" using 3 seperate photo components.

So here are our original photos:

coastline:


wave:


clouds:



Ok, so now we have our components....let's go through a simple 8-step process for creating our scene!

















Annnnnd we're done! Kinda....Now obviously we could have taken this further by creating a crazier tide in front of the wave, or maybe adding some nutty winds and a cow flying by- but we'll save that for my next blog entry.

Until then, out!

Craig


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19 Comments

by Christian   #
on January 11, 2006 / 5:59pm
I think the only thing cooler would be a surfer riding the tsunami.
by Robert   #
on January 11, 2006 / 6:40pm
As Larry Niven wrote, "Okay, I didn't actually see the surfer hit the building."
by Nick   #
on January 12, 2006 / 11:12am
Nicely done.
by Rem   #
on January 26, 2006 / 4:33pm
what kind of pussy wave is that?

surf's up dude, i'm cool.
by annon   #
on January 27, 2006 / 10:12am
for god sake put a tsunami donate button on here you tasteless idiot
by JP   #
on January 27, 2006 / 10:14am
That's all fine and well but tsunami's aren't storms.
by alanon   #
on January 27, 2006 / 11:04am
Hey annon,
it's a tutorial, not a jab at tsunami victims. why don't you donate a dollar so you can cry yourself to sleep. Tsunami donate button my ass you tasteless idiot.
by Fred LeBlanc   #
on January 27, 2006 / 4:04pm
Just to highlight a point (something that was mentioned but might have been missed), this is work done for a client, more specifically a museum's study of natural disasters.

Also, just because a natural disaster actually strikes doesn't mean everything involving said disaster from that point forward is off limits and/or a 'jab' at victims of an emergency.

These disasters happen, and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.

Uhh... go Craig!
by Adam   #
on January 28, 2006 / 1:02am
Impressively done. I have Photoshop, but zero art skill, so watching that kind of thing come together is just stunning.
by Sekretar3000   #
on January 29, 2006 / 8:01pm
Nice job!
by Anthony   #
on January 30, 2006 / 10:06pm
Really cool. Nice work.
by me   #
on February 2, 2006 / 11:08pm
maybe the bikini models and you guys with drinks it's what's missing in the picture

Good work

How about an extraterrestrial invasion for your next blog?
by Dave Tufts   #
on February 3, 2006 / 10:36am
Craig's original tsunami can be found here. It's the intro graphic to Springfield Museum's new exhibit on natural disasters.

He also made a sick volcano for their home page.
by Schneider   #
on February 10, 2006 / 3:59pm
To JP (Jan 27): You meant to create a plural but the appostrophe you inserted makes it a possessive instead.
by To JP as well...   #
on April 1, 2006 / 2:16am
Why can't there be a tsunami and a storm happening at the same time? It's very plausible.
by Wide Aware   #
on July 6, 2006 / 10:26am
Nice challenging kind of feel to it. The perfect adventure, but looks a bit too much the perfect adventure to seem real
by Photoshopgod101   #
on July 11, 2007 / 12:58am
Hey. I really like the work, and I doubt I could do better, but the artwork is no longer featured Springfield Museum's page. Or, I just can't find it.
by lebowski   #
on August 27, 2007 / 2:37pm
i like your other works, but this one ...khm....is a joke.
by obtusellama   #
on August 30, 2007 / 3:53am
at alanon

i second that :D

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