Initial Techniques

Although I feel I'm well versed in photoshop I think the workshops have been a great chance to refresh my knowledge and pick up a few tips and pointers from John. I personally love using shortcuts in photoshop and these workshops have helped me pick up a few new one's which will speed up my workflow.

As far as ideas go I'm still pretty open ended, I've decided I want to do something around sports or athletes and try and steer away from obvious manipulation techniques such as circuits, wires etc and focus on mechanical changes to someone to improve performance in some way.

I've decided to do some research into superhuman specimens and I've been quite lucky in finding a particular news story about an Athlete called 'Oscar Pistorius' who was heavily featured in the media during the 2012 Olympics. Pistorius has been a double leg amputee for his entire life but went on to become a successful sprint runner and ran in the London 2012 Olympics last alongside non-amputee athletes. There was a debate about whether his prosthetic limbs provided him with an advantage over the other runners because he h. He was allowed to compete but some of the other runners were not happy with the decision. I then began to think about if someone having human limbs replaced with mechanical/prosthetic limbs is more able than someone with normal human limbs. How far can this be pushed before someone is more mechanical then human? Thus leading to my inspiration for this project.

I want to create a composite of an athlete who has a limb/limbs removed and replace with mechanical parts. I don't want to replace it with an already existing prosthetic leg design I want to use objects that I feel would improve there abilities in one way or another.