3rd emergency meeting in our hostel room.

9pm in the night we launched our emergency meeting for our calendar design as one of our member, Kayli Leng just informed us that some other group already chose the theme of dessert! So, we have to decide whether to change our theme or to remain it unchanged and asked for our lecturer's opinion.

Since we believe that our ideas of the 'elf world' which we will be sitting or standing on the delicious desserts is surely not easily thought by someone else to be exactly the same as our idea, we hope to stick to our plan. Which we will choose 2 dessert for each person and edit our photos of positions (standing, sitting, jumping etc.) onto the dessert.
For an example:

The little girl sitting on the cake above is a photo of my little sister I cropped out from the original photo below:

Some photoshop steps:

Quick Selection Tool

Select the subject with the Selection Tool.

Right click> Select Inverse. Then selecr Eraser Tool to erase the background.

Zoom in the picture and then soften the edge by using eraser.

Select the Move Tool.

Drag the cropped subject into the dessert page.

Resize the subject by clicking Shift Key while adjusting the size.

Use Brush Tool, select black colour and lower down the opacity & the flow of the brush to about 50%.

Brush it at the corner of the legs to make it looks real.

Conclusion, we will continue our work on the dessert first and will ask for lecturer's opinion this week.

2nd meeting during CG lecture class.

Through some brainstorming, we have 2 options for our theme for the calendar.

The 1st one is the theme of 2012 which the whole calendar we will go around the topic of what human on the Earth will go through throughout the year 2012 which is so called, the year when the world meets the end.

Example, in January we will talk about whether the human will believe the rumor of the coming of the end of the world.  The following months we will highlight the many symptoms of the Earth dying, such as earthquakes, tsunami etc. For some interesting festivals within the calendar, perhaps we will include some little details like maybe many couples would treasure their moment for their last valentines during Valentine day.

However, it is considered troublesome for us as we could not think of any other way to get nice pictures other from google image=) (this may causes low resolution photos and limited presentation) As an addition, Photoshop is seen to be not too useful for this theme. 

Hence, we proceed to the next plan which we will relate the theme of desserts. We chose this theme because it is lovable by people and we could also take the chance through the calendar to recommend desserts from some nice restaurants. Each of us will choose 2 desserts (each for each month) we like and we will edit our position( such as sitting, standing, squating) onto the dessert which will create some kind like a elf world (small human all over the dessert).

For now, every member is assigned to look for their favourite dessert (2 types) and do the selection of photos. Good luck!