Barbie - Obese editionCraft: I took an image of Barbie and used the magic wand and magnetic lasso to remove her from her background. I cleaned up the edges with the eraser tool. I created separate layers her head, stomach, chest, each arm, and each leg and used distort and liquify to obtain the size results. I used clones of the original bathing suit and shoes to create the new ones. For Barbie's chubby face, I duplicated her chin and then added a shadow using the paint brush and gaussian blur. I found an image of a Barbie box and used the rectangular selection tool to remove it from the background. I then used the magnetic lasso and polygon lasso to remove the contents of the box. I created a separate layer behind the box to make the background. I sampled the color from the original box and then added the shadows by duplicating Barbie and the box edge, decreasing their value, applying gaussian blur, lowering the opacity, and repositioning them accordingly. I then used the text tool and found a font that I felt suited the Barbie and added "Obese" below the Barbie text on the box. I sampled the colors from the word Barbie. I applied an outer glow to the text in white to create the outline. To create the glare on the plastic, I created a new layer and added some diagnol white streaks of different widths, then blurred them and lowered their opacity to get the desired effect.
Concept: I was thinking about toys that nobody would buy or want their children to play with. I also considered things our society is currently encountering. You never see fat play toys, especially Barbies. However, Barbie is unrealistic because nobody looks like that. I don't think children will want the misfit Barbie, and I know that parents are not going to encourage their little girls to play with a pudgy Barbie. After all, what could that encourage? Advertising and selling an obese Barbie is promoting acceptance of obesity and my concept. Obese Barbie teaches little girls that obesity is acceptable. I would like to make this a McDonalds theme with the catchphrase "Supersize Barbie!"
Composition: I used an angle of Barbie that I felt maximized her size. I over-exaggerated her stomach and hips because I wanted them to be the focal point and I also knew they would fall in the middle of the box. The first thing I want the eye to notice is the size of Barbie's waist, then the rest of her, and finally the box. I intentionally left her chest small in order to accentuate the size of her belly. I also made her lips and nose smaller to make it seem like her cheeks are pudgy also.
Concept: I was thinking about toys that nobody would buy or want their children to play with. I also considered things our society is currently encountering. You never see fat play toys, especially Barbies. However, Barbie is unrealistic because nobody looks like that. I don't think children will want the misfit Barbie, and I know that parents are not going to encourage their little girls to play with a pudgy Barbie. After all, what could that encourage? Advertising and selling an obese Barbie is promoting acceptance of obesity and my concept. Obese Barbie teaches little girls that obesity is acceptable. I would like to make this a McDonalds theme with the catchphrase "Supersize Barbie!"
Composition: I used an angle of Barbie that I felt maximized her size. I over-exaggerated her stomach and hips because I wanted them to be the focal point and I also knew they would fall in the middle of the box. The first thing I want the eye to notice is the size of Barbie's waist, then the rest of her, and finally the box. I intentionally left her chest small in order to accentuate the size of her belly. I also made her lips and nose smaller to make it seem like her cheeks are pudgy also.
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