Dreamscape Project

For our second project, our goal was to create a surreal 'dreamscape' image using a collage of various pictures, in a format large enough for an 11 x 17 high resolution print. My childhood cat named Miles had passed away recently, so I thought I would use this project to create something in his memory. The following is from the writeup that accompanied the artwork:

As anyone who grew up in the 90’s would probably recognize, this image is a recreation of Emerald Hill Zone from the game Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Released in 1992, the same year I got Miles, I named him after the supporting character who was first introduced in this game, Miles “Tails” Prower. The character was an orange and white two-tailed fox that could rotate his tails like a helicopter to fly; so I got the idea to use old pictures of my cat and manipulate them to show him running (and flying) around the game world as his namesake, with an extra tail to boot. I created the layout from various seamless textures I found on the Internet, and took some of the original graphics from the game and blended them with the textures to increase the resolution and give them more detail. The rest was done by painstakingly warping and skewing copies of the textures to create the landscape, which believe me, I sorely regret doing now, lol.

Here are the original photos of Miles along with the background image used.