Author: Luisana Pena Garcia

The Oculus Cats Playground

Fall 2025

Created with Adobe Photoshop

By combining my cat with The Oculus mall to make it appear as if the mall was his playground. To add more visual interest, I designed a pattern based on cats pictures and applied it to the fonts, enhancing them with vibrant, saturated colors. My inspiration came from bringing a playful colors to the scene. The most challenging part was blending the mixture of colors, which I solved by adjusting lighting and color balance to unify the composition.

Source:

The Oculus – NYC (51521542401).jpg By ajay_suresh. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic. Wikimedia. 26 September.

2021https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Oculus_-_NYC_%2851521542401%29.jpg

Orange tabby cat sitting on fallen leaves-Hisashi-01A.jpg. By  Hisash.  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. Wikimedia.1 November 2009. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_tabby_cat_sitting_on_fallen_leaves-Hisashi-01A.jpg

George, a perfect example of a tuxedo cat.jpg. By Adkisaac.  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. Wikimedia. 8 April 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George,_a_perfect_example_of_a_tuxedo_cat.jpg

Photo of my cat. By Luisana Pena Garcia. 9 August 2025.

For the composite image I added my cat to downtown Manhattan next to The Oculus World Trade Center, applying techniques learned in class.

Here wanted to see how it how would look like as if my cat were that big, change the sky color to add a bit of surrealism.

Source:

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/29/santiago-calatrava-oculus-world-trade-center-transportation-hub-new-york-photographs-hufton-crow

New Composite image – using Creative Commons licensed photos from Google.

For the composite image I added my cat in downtown Manhattan next to The Oculus World Trade Center, applying techniques learned in class.

Here wanted to see how it how would look like as if my cat were that big with super long tail.

Creative Commons licensed Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Oculus_-NYC%2851521542401%29.jpg

https://share.google/images/OIgHNwEKAM1RtUv3D