Toy Room - Photoshop: brush, vanishing point transform and more

With given components of the toys, I designed a 3-D environment (walls and floor and window) and a colorful toy box with shadows and vanishing point, plus a photo frame.

A few highlights of this photoshop creative:

The brush I created is for the surface of toy box.  The original brush is from the Assorted brush set, named concentric circles.  I basically modified its master diameter to 200px and  set the shape dynamics settings: size Jitter to 100%, minimum diameter to 15%. For the colorful background of the toy box, I actually customized another brush from Assorted brushes, called texture 6.  I modified its master diameter to a much larger one and added the color dynamics feature to make it vary in Hue and saturatioin as well. In order to make the white circles integrated into the whole painting, I used the blend mode Lighten and opacity 90%. Then I think the white concentric cirle really goes with the abstract background of the toy box painting.

I am using the CS version, therefore, I created the 3-point perspective all by transforming, without the vanishing point filter. I used the lines as the guide for the perpective, as shown in the image of the perspective box.

I set the environment as a corner of a room with a window on one side. I think this way, it will make it clear to the audience where the light source located. And having a little witch floating outside the window make the picture more interesting. Everything including the window, wall, floor and toys in the enviroment is transformed into 3-D.

The shadows are made according to the light source from the window. As the window is on the left side of the environment, all the shadows are heading toward the right side, except the shadow of the motocyle, because it is leaning on the left side wall, just underneathe the window, its shadow is on the wall.

The first frame is made from the texture of the roof on the house (one of the toys). The 3-D effect (bigger pattern in the middle, small pattern on the sides) are achieved by utilizing the technique of alpha channel. I like this effect, it looks pretty real.

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