Momentum

Well this has to be the most complicated digital piece I've ever done; not as in the practical side (though I've never used more than 40 layers in one image before!) but what the whole thing means.

Depicted in the picture are three of the fastest animals known to man on the planet. The cheetah is the fasted animal on land. The Peregrine Falcon is the fasted bird of the sky, and the Sail fin is the fasted fish in the Ocean. The cheetah represents direction, the Falcon represents magnitude and the sail fin represents dimension. direction, dimension and magnitude all are attributes and parts of building momentum, which each of these creatures has to build and control to maintain the speeds their bodies can reach.

The three animals are shown conventionalize in a triangle shape, or the same shape as the symbol for Vectors, which is a mathematical term for something that has both direction and magnitude. Each of the three animals come from three different environments that co exist. Subliminally the three may represent the holy trinity, or the connection between the creation and creator, as each of the three animals is facing the Sun which is depicted in the center of the image.

I wanted to create an image that represented what momentum meant to me, and this is the result. It is a present for a dear friend of mine. It took three days to do. All done in photoshop.