Ari Matthews
Addie — A praying mantis character, built in segmented clipping-mask layers — because she's a noticeably segmented character.

Addie

Year
2025
Type
School project
Discipline
illustration, character design
Tools
Photoshop

Build a Photoshop file segmented into posable layers that could be puppeted in animation software.

This illustration features a praying mantis character I created on a whim named Addie.

For an assignment in one of my classes, I had to make a Photoshop file segmented into posable layers that I could puppet in an animation software if I wanted to. I used clipping mask layers to achieve this, and thought it would be ironic to use this segmented method to produce an illustration of a noticeably segmented character.