Dribbble Campaign

SO I have been a fan of Dribbble for a long time (I am on their at least once a day… probably more). I take design inspiration and creative spring-boarding from all the different varieties of shots on there. I have been a ‘prospect‘ for a while (riding the sidelines) but I have decided that I need to take a more aggressive approach if I ever want to make it to the coveted ‘player’ status… I mean, I have a lot to say, and I want to comment, and post my own shots to get creative feedback… so this is the beginning of that campaign. People from Dribbble… hear my cry! Get me a SHOT (pun enormously intended)

A Fun Challenge

Today I had a fun design challenge. I needed to take a photograph (that my wife took), and insert an illustration, and make it look like it was actually in the photo to begin with. Below you can see a few of the steps along the way.

To the left is the original (unedited version of the photo) courtesy of Chandra Sale and thanks to Lee Ann Miller for letting us use her house.

This next one is the beginning stages (mock up of roughly where I needed everything to be laid out) Essentially taking a custom flat illustration made in Adobe illustrator® and creating a 3D image of the same dimensions and mapping the illustration on top (allowing me to rotate the graphic freely in space).

*This was looking pretty good, but you could tell that it was just an illustration laid on top of a photograph… not the end result I was needing.

… Almost there…

This is the final image (edited, color-corrected, and mapped to integrate into the overall graphic). I used a series of layers to get the effect, including: gradients, overlays, drop shadows, reflections, masks and blurs.

The overall time it took for this project (excluding the original creation of the album art illustration) was about six hours.

I am pretty happy with the results… I hope you like it too!