Assignment: Fairly simple assignment; though a little technical. You just need to superimpose something’s head onto another something’s head.

Process: I procured the two images from Google image search; one is an advertisements for actual $5 Elvis toast, and the other is what appears to be someone’s oekaki of Ren and Stimpy’s Captain Toast Man.

The tricky part is getting the new toast head onto captain toast man; the Elvis toast head is huge, and it has its own background in its own original picture, so I had to cut it out via a layer in GIMP, then scale that layer down under the layer menu. I played with the number of pixels for the new scaled version until the size was about right; secondly I needed to flip the Elvis head so that the Elvis head representation on the toast matched that of the original Captain Toast Man head, so I just flipped the layer horizontally; again under the layer menu. Then I just finished up with some positioning, and I thought it looked pretty good.

Story: Wow, my favorite child-hood character and Elvis; there’s no relevance or meaning really, I just liked the casual absurdity of it. I originally was going to just do Stimpy’s head on Ren, but I saw Captain Toast Man when searching for the Ren and Stimpy pictures, so I just had to get that. Then I realized it would be eye-catching if it was real toast instead of the drawn cartoon toast, but the final twist of the Elvis head came in when I just happened to see it when searching for toast. There’s a lot freaky toast if you search for “toast” on google; including the Jesus and MLK toasts.