Who Are We? RealGirl261

This page sort of offsets all the weird fantasy characters by having it be dedicated to the real girl behind all the profiles, i wanted her to be surrounded by this pretty pastel bubble of the internet. Shes your typical Tumblr girl, into memes, TV and 90s nostalgia. You can also see the other profiles floating around her imagination as she views herself as doing no harm.

I originally had another idea for this page where it would be full of a bunch of really unflattering photos of myself i found while going through stuff for this project, a few of these images ended up on RealGirl261's Tumblr anyway.

Who Are We? The Devil

So like ive mentioned before the Devil character was all about online trolling and how a person might use that really horrible part of themselves as an escape online. I also mentioned how i was looking at creating this weird pale faced androgynous default avatar-esque makeup for the character. I tried out a couple of things and i found most inspiration from Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord in the ugly boy video so i tried to recreate that for my photos. I had to create a little avatar for twitter so i used this black alien eyes tutorial from Phlearn and whitening skin tutorial from Retutpro.

Yolandi Visser in 'Ugly Boy'

my devil avatar

Once i had this avatar it was time to get tweeting, im actually not that rude or awful a person but i did try and got a few nasty tweets out on the profile which i then used collage style as the background for my NewHive page.

I originally had an idea to create a video where i would be dressed as the devil reading out tweets using one of those text to speech robot voice things but the time i would have needed to do all the video editing would have been too much so instead i created a gif of the devil in a bunch of different poses that it would cycle through to go in its place and i left out the sound because it would have been the only page which had any.

The gif was pretty easy to create i just used the various photos i had taken, all edited with the white skin and bug eyes and used the pop up window from the front page.

Who Are We? Aegle255's Not So Perfect Pinterest

Aegle255 was based around the health/fitspo community online. Based mostly around Pinterest which is very picture perfect and aspirational to the point of being homogenised and cut and paste engagement photoshoots, wedding invites, all that weird adult stuff.

I started this NewHive page with a nice picture perfect holiday snap from France that would act as background with a screenshot of my Aegle Pinterest profile thing, i kinda wish i had faked a larger follower count for this part to add to the fantasy.

 I made a bunch of fake pins for the NewHive page by taking screenshots of images i had pinned on Aegles profile and adding a few gifs which would be these nice aspirational pretty pins that turn into crappy images of real life, like healthy food turning into junk food or a nice holiday turning into a shitty staycation.

I also wanted to add the most cliche of pinterest cliches the inspirational quote, i made my own version.

I would have liked to have added a few extra pins to make it a bit more cluttered looking but i think it turned out alright.

Who Are We? NewHive Front Page

My first NewHive page is going to be a group photo of all my social media characters or 'tuplas' hanging out together like the paintings of the gods in olympus. I got all my photos sorted after a very long day so it was just a matter of getting them cut out and collaged together.

Just like with my Venus page i chose a large image for the background, in this case a nice landscape by Horatio McCulloch (not related). I wasnt sure if i wanted to use this as my background i was just getting something there for my characters to go on top of but its actually really grown on me.

Glencoe is about to get funky

I cut out all my characters in photoshop again, took a bit of time but you start to get used it and using the mouse in quite a precise way and just placed them on top of this image which again was made much more colourful.

you might be able to see my pretty passable photoshop edits of my ass Kim K style

At this point i wasnt totally sure what to do with the devil character, i hadnt been able to get a good full body shot but i had plenty from the shoulders up that i had used to make my devils avatar. I had this idea to create a pop up windowfor the devil to appear in, saying something annoying and trolling. I found this window someone had created on deviant art and used it to create my pop up window, placing my edited devil selfie on an illustration from Paradise Lost by Gustave Dore.

I quite like the way the trumpets form a spiky crown as well as symbolising this character being a loudmouth

I also added a cheeky little window which was an edit of an existing windows message found on google. That was the background image basically finished apart from a nice green smoothie radiating healthy energy floating in Aegle255s hand

On NewHive im going to ass this nice glitter gif i made with my own fair hand and thats it done :)

Who Are We? The Venus Hive

I started work on this newhive page because its the one i had the clearest ideas for, i wanted to reacreate a depiction of the goddess Venus but using my own photo in this weird kind of cyberspace world.

So i started by cutting out this lovely photo id taken at home in photoshop. I stuck a red filled layer underneath used the rubber tool to do an outline, the red makes it easier to see what your cutting out and the dropped cut out me onto a nice desktop background of clouds and water.

I messed a bit around with the saturation to give it a bit of a cyberspacey early 90s graphics look.

 

To make it more like one of the old paintings of the goddess Venus i cut out these cherubs from Cabanels Birth of Venus, flipped them and used the hue and saturation tool i used on the background to make them bright pink.

The Original Venus (The Birth of Venus, Alexandre Cabanel)

My Venus

Next job was to create a gif that looked like a photobooth window, i just took a screenshot of my photobooth window with lots of photos of me done up like venus, cut away all of the stuff i didnt need and made a gif in photoshop from a video also made in photobooth