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Heads and bodies

The photographs of UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon and BaE CEO Mike Turner, above, are standard publicity shots. But even these dull images could be cutout, distorted, shaded and placed onto new bodies for this illustration for the Sunday Telegraph about naval defense contracts. Given a clear starting image, anything is possible.

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PHOTOMONTAGE ARTISTS are frequently asked to put one person’s head on another person’s body. in this chapter, we’ll look at how to make heads and bodies join seamlessly together. eye contact, as we discussed in chapter 5, is crucial to making characters relate to one another. so here’s a technique for ...

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