Jan
25

Emmanuel Perez-Duarte created this startling self-portrait entitled “The Origins of Evolution”. My Modern Metropolis got in touch with the Paris, France-based photographer to ask him how he achieved this awesomely freaky look: “I had been experimenting on morphing software, which allows to go from one face to another (in theory, both human) in a smooth transition: taking an image from the middle of the transition and correcting it in post processing allowed me to make ‘hybrid,’ or ‘blended’ people. The result was a lot of fun and made the people who knew the two ‘blended’ ones very uncomfortable. “The next step seemed obvious: blending a human face with an animal face - and what better choice than a monkey? The similarity of its face with a human face made the experiment quite easier than with other animals. I looked at my stock photos and found a pretty good shot, up-close, of a monkey, and voilà! I first used a morphing software Squiz Morph to help me distort my face and the monkey’s to make them match, and then most of the work was done in The Gimp, which is a open source image manipulation software similar to Photoshop.” The Geyser of awesome salutes Emmanuel Perez-Duarte for his playful creativity! Less talk, more awesome monkey man photos!

Emmanuel Perez-Duarte created this startling self-portrait entitled “The Origins of Evolution”. My Modern Metropolis got in touch with the Paris, France-based photographer to ask him how he achieved this awesomely freaky look:

“I had been experimenting on morphing software, which allows to go from one face to another (in theory, both human) in a smooth transition: taking an image from the middle of the transition and correcting it in post processing allowed me to make ‘hybrid,’ or ‘blended’ people. The result was a lot of fun and made the people who knew the two ‘blended’ ones very uncomfortable.

“The next step seemed obvious: blending a human face with an animal face - and what better choice than a monkey? The similarity of its face with a human face made the experiment quite easier than with other animals. I looked at my stock photos and found a pretty good shot, up-close, of a monkey, and voilà!

I first used a morphing software Squiz Morph to help me distort my face and the monkey’s to make them match, and then most of the work was done in The Gimp, which is a open source image manipulation software similar to Photoshop.”

The Geyser of awesome salutes Emmanuel Perez-Duarte for his playful creativity!

Less talk, more awesome monkey man photos!

Source mymodernmet.com

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    That name is beyond stupid....evolution were….probably rocks or slime or slimy rocks.
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    Planet of The Apessss! :D
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    What the actual fuck
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