The Landing

Being sick does have some perks... More time to manip! This is my entry for the  The Magic of Melies Contest - CLOSEDOur new event, read everything SO you DO not make ANY mistakes.
This event is a tribute to the fantastic works of Georges Méliès.
Georges Méliès
Was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards.
1888–1923

We'll give two movies to inspire you, choose one of the themes below:
Theme 1:  A Trip to the Moon
The film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground gr  held by The-Imaginarium   2nd place! Jippie! 
It is a scene from the silent movie "trip to the moon" by George Melies.
I had a lot of fun watching the movie in the journal, the thought that you can just make a rocket, fire it up, go to the moon, meet moonpeople there, being able to breathe, walk and talk (silently in this case) and return to earth with the tuck of a rope and simply fall back to it  

I never saw it before this video but it was totally worth it! The maker had a lot of fantasy and knew how to bring it to the people...


Stocks used:
For the rocket
Metal Cannister png stock (updated)  
textures bronze from textures.com
bookshelf 

Steps rocket: Made a cone in photoshop (3D) from the cannister and melted the two together. Cut out a door and made it a real door by drawing. Used the bookcase for the doorsteps and the textures to make it bronze instead of silver.

Background stocks:
Sky 
Looks like planet X 
Cracked Earth 
Desert Earth Planet 2.0 
Mushrooms 4 
Forest Background 
Waterfall - Full 
E-S Mushrooms 


A lot of the background was altered by painting, adjustments and some stocks as textures.

Man stock:
Kenilworth Model Stock 3 

I got rid of the piercings and necklace because in those days they didnt have any. Did some recouloring on the skin, made him smile (he is happy to have landed on the moon) gave him more colour and did some work on his eyes. By drawing I grew his beard and made the hair grey.

Brushes used:
Hair and beard: my own brush
lightbeam: Light Beams + Rays Photoshop and GIMP Brushes 
Stars:Moons Stars Sparkles Brushes