Exploding Ball

For this, I took a picture of Javi's string ball thing. I quick selected shards of broken glass and duplicated that process many times. I then warped and erased parts to make sure no two pieces look similar. Then I clumped some together for the initial break and spread the bigger ones out further away. The smudge tool was a bit of a pain, it never really came out well.

Puppet Warp

I warped Richard's arms so that they were touching his head. I quick selected his body  and refined it. Then after some saving, I used the puppet warp tool and various layers to get his arms to touch his head. Finally I filled out the content and merged a duplicate to polish it.