How to make a frankenpet.

To follow along, here is a link to the tutorial.
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161399/franken-pet

First I started out with picking 2 animal photos for the franken pet.
The Idea is to take part of the head of one animal and place it on the other animal.  This should look pretty cool when finished.

Looking at these two photos, I decided to take part of the dog's head and place it on the Koala's head.
This is done by cutting out the dog's head. and placing the layer in the koala workspace.

At this point, Re-size and rotate the dog's head into position.  It is easier if the dog's head is at an opacity of 50.  This makes the koala's head visible throughout the rotation and re-sizing.

Once the heads are in the proper place, use the lasso tool to cut into the dog's head and remove what isn't need.

   

I took the dog head layer and added a dropshadow.  Also I removed the koala's left ear because it stuck out from behind the dog.  Using a clone tool can do this.  Once you are at this point, some photoshop skills will be needed to make it look just a little more realistic.  Use the Burn tool around the edge of the dog and on the koala where the layers meet.  Also due to the lighting, I used an Innerglow set to saturation with the size set close to maximum on the dog's head.  

To finish out with the stitches, the brush tool with a light color is used.  This is done in a separate layer of course.  Blending options can give you bevel and satin look to make the stitches pop out with realism.  

 Wow, what a new creature.  Mwahahahahaha

digital neo-surrealist George Grie

George Grie is one of the First Digital Neo-Surrealists.  His works are mainly in the digital 3d area.  His 3d art landed him a job as a multimedia design artist with IBM. 

His Art is a mixture of old school "surrealist symbolism" with more modern fantasy and visionary art.

The first picture denotes dryness, lack of water and decay with a crude mechanical drive to turn these ships into land crawlers. 

The connotations I get out of this picture are quite mixed.  I see the mixture of the subconscious mind pushing to throw physics out the window.  Something like bringing a dream to life. 

This piece is very interesting.  This art denotes the edge of the world on a perfect night.  Chaos is ahead but in the place of calm sea.  A connotation of this art would be a supernatural delusion with some kind of realm on the flip side of the edge.  You can see two stone men holding up the edge of the world.  Something unnatural is happening here. 

 This Art piece is just fun to look at.  Right away a journey into the subconscious comes to mind.  The Denotations are a castle with an air ship and a sea vessel.  Isolated from anyone in a very old land.
This piece is very similar to the others.  The connotations are not so clear.  Maybe this connotates a Realm of Magic in a fantasy setting.  Obviously this is something that could never be on our Earth. 

With all of these Digital art works several things are clear.  They connotate Isolation and mystic illusions, sources of magic and crazy dreams.  George Grie's surreal influences give him a creative avenue to produce limitless images of the mind.  One fine artist.
Here are some links to the pictures I found on the Internet.
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/g/georgegrie/
http://www.redbubble.com/people/surrealismart