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Posted on 03/06/10 09:12:02 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
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Posted on 03/06/10 10:11:43 AM |
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nerdtron
Neutron Neth Posts: 76 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 302: Kiss the frog
Wewhhh...glad to have a peaceful mind. Out exam was easier than I expected. I'm sure that i passed it. 
Great works so far. Nick that's a really big frog!  _________________ Let's go the lab. Gotta Blast!!! - Jimmy Neutron |
Posted on 03/06/10 10:16:35 AM |
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nerdtron
Neutron Neth Posts: 76 Reply |
Re: Challenge 302: Kiss the frog
I made a simple animation for the frog transformation this week. Here it is. _________________ Let's go the lab. Gotta Blast!!! - Jimmy Neutron |
Posted on 03/06/10 10:53:31 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply  |
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You are welcome and No - two cats are enough.! 
Ironically no time for me to enter this week although I am enjoying everyone else's work _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 03/06/10 2:38:52 PM |
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Ben Mills
Luminous Luminary Posts: 570 Reply  |
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Posted on 03/06/10 6:32:24 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 302: Kiss the frog
Yet another one of those challenges you could keep playing with for hours. Or maybe it's just my ezcema has got so bad all I can see are scales!! The Frog formerly known as Prince.  |
Posted on 03/06/10 7:30:38 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 302: Kiss the frog
 _________________ I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka |
Posted on 03/06/10 10:18:05 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 302: Kiss the frog
Enjoying and great entries. Sorry, v.rushed, just a little time again this week for my attempt. Wrong frog........?! The stuff of nightmares.. 
(Wishing had more time, ..., but have to turn the wheels of industry...) |
Posted on 04/06/10 08:25:05 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6844 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 302: Kiss the frog
First to transform into a frog this week was GKB - Gordon, I assume that’s you in there? And is Sylvia in fact Mrs GKB? A very neat montage, with a nicely patched background to remove your original head (assuming you had one). Add a little frog texture to the arms, and you’re there. Well, I recognise Jono’s shot of Obama - although why he’s conducting lightning, I have no idea. A nice fit, though, and the texture on the hands works especially well. Well, if it isn’t Sarah Palin cropping up in brewell’s entry... what a fantastic shot! Her pose, the position of her hand, her eye direction - perfect. Now if she could only get her shoulder back, the image would be exactly right. I like the jaunty angle of eggbox’s crown - and the great expression on the woman’s face. Was this photographed specially? A good choice of background, but do soften the edges of her hair to blend into it. Funny stuff from Ben Mills, with a rather forlorn Prince Charles left sitting on a lily pad. A terrific idea, Ben, but there’s some odd scale stuff going on: if the woman’s really about to kiss that frog, shouldn’t she be up to her chin in water? A naughty second entry, Ben - with so many French members of the forum, I was nearly going to censor this one. No offence meant, guys. A fairy tale ending from Nick Curtain, with Barbie as the ideal mate. I love that shiny piano, which has the plastic feel that’s just right for Barbie. That’s a tune to the Shirley Bassey classic that I don’t recognise - have you written a new one? Absolutely ingenious work in the second entry, with the frog melting away to reveal the prince beneath - a perfectly-judged transformation, as if the frog skin is being pulled away. Fantastic. A perfectly placed frog from horonggo: however revolting the idea might be, the way it really appears to be crawling from one mouth to the other is exactly right. Very good stuff. A fabulous animation from tooquilos, telling a whole Disney story in under a minute... perfect choice of source images, great music, and I love the ribbitting frogs at the end! Great stuff, Anna. I recognise james’s walk in the woods from an earlier Challenge... a clever adaptation! We’re fooled into watching the tiny frog, when all along it’s the huge one camouflaged in the bushes that we should be looking at. Perfectly judged speed of movement here, especially as she’s sucked into its mouth: very finely wrought, James. An electric kiss from LonnieK - I like the way it’s caught in mid-transformation. And the expression on the girl’s face is perfect. Have you enlarged the eyes to make her more Disney-like? A fantastic fairy-tale shot from tomiloi, complete with princess, moon and wicked witch (at least, I assume she’s wicked - they usually are). Subtle and restrained work, and the glowing frog is cute; the lighting on the girl is great for the scene. Good work. A funny entry from Steve Mac, the girl and the frog clearly with different ideas about the outcome. I like the way the frog sits in her hand: a clever manipulation of the original pose. A neat animation from Eva Roth, whose frog leaps into the princess’s hand only to transform into (the artist formerly known as) Prince. A clever idea - but there’s something odd about the girl’s pose before the frog appears, as if part of her is missing. A great transformation sequence, though, that reminds me of the old Jekyll and Hyde movies. An ingenious reworking of a famous old photograph from maiden - and I like the way he appears to be almost swallowing her. A great replacement of the hand, as well - a good image! Looks like this week’s challenge has brought out the animator in more of us, with nerdtron adding a classic transformation. I like the final kiss, but I’m disturbed by the fact that the woman is so much larger than the man... take another look, you’ll see what I mean. And I’m sure you could have found a higher resolution hand! Looks like Deborah Morley has worked really hard at turning Prince back into a frog - a lot of cloning going on there! I like the way we can still make out who it is - the hair helps, of course, and the diamond studded, er, ear thing. But there’s always a danger when wrapping texture in this way to make the surface seem too flat: we need, somehow, to get a sense of the skin bending around the cheek, in particular. Very hard to achieve, I know! A glorious, immaculate entry from Emil: from idea to completion, everything about this has been perfectly carried out. The lighting, the shadow, the refracted view, the way the ball sits in the hand, the crown wallpaper, and of course the pose of the original model, with the (added?) hand - fantastic. Faultless, Emil. A great final image this week, from Jota120 - wrong frog, indeed! A terrific expression, and the green stain on the tongue is perfect. Disgusting, but a great image! Good work! |
Posted on 04/06/10 08:50:24 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
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Thank you Steve for your comment. I had luck to find the model prepared exactly for my idea, so, the hand was not added. _________________ The most beatiful thing we can experience is mysterious. It is the source of all true art and sience. - Albert Einstein |
Posted on 04/06/10 08:59:25 AM |
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nerdtron
Neutron Neth Posts: 76 Reply |
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Thanks Sir Steve! Uhmm...yeah, I just noticed it now. I had the feeling that something is awkward with this animation but I can't figure it out. Thank you for the feedback.
I don't have a huge library of body parts and I was quick to get that hand from google. I probably stretched it too long. _________________ I got it. Brain Blast!!! - Jimmy Neutron |
Posted on 04/06/10 09:12:03 AM |
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Eggbox
Ovoid Opportunist Posts: 797 Reply  |
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Thank you Steve for your comments particularly about the blending hair. Why do I forget the mantra - Detail, detail! No the woman was not specialy photographed. She was a Google find and adapted. This week's entry was exclusively Wacomed! Ted  |
Posted on 04/06/10 09:31:46 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3741 Reply  |
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Thanks Steve, Yes, that is Mrs GKB. I had, co-incidentally, just been working on that image when the Friday Challenge came along so it was a natural one to pick for the final image. _________________ Why isn't 'phonetic' spelled the way it sounds? |
Posted on 04/06/10 09:48:10 AM |
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Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply  |
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A neat animation from Eva Roth, whose frog leaps into the princess’s hand only to transform into (the artist formerly known as) Prince. A clever idea - but there’s something odd about the girl’s pose before the frog appears, as if part of her is missing. A great transformation sequence, though, that reminds me of the old Jekyll and Hyde movies. Thanks a lot for your comments, Steve. You're absolutely right about the girl! I have a slow and erratic internet connexion here in Sicily, so I decided to work with the first images I found online. The girl was of course kissing some other non-frog-like person, so once he'd been removed she needed extensive plastic surgery. I shoud have tried to find a better kissing girl image or spend more time on her face! Prince, too has been extended by me, a lot of his hair was done with a scatter brush... |
Posted on 04/06/10 11:55:30 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2806 Reply  |
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Thank you Steve! _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 04/06/10 12:00:45 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
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Thanks Steve removing the awkward hand was a pain but neccessary. |
Posted on 04/06/10 5:04:06 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
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I moved Sarah's hand to get it closer to her mouth, and I had to pose in front of a mirror to check that yes, a sliver of upper arm should have been exposed. Thanks for the detail. Also, I love manipulating people's eyes, and at times I wonder, are human facial expressions interpreted the same way for vastly different cultures around the world? I suspect they are and it seems completely marvelous to me. _________________ The journey of a thousand hours begins with a single layer. |
Posted on 04/06/10 9:07:10 PM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply |
Re: Challenge 302: Kiss the frog
Thanks Steve I grabbed a music score at random from Google, but should have remembered you play the piano to a pretty high standard, so no fooling you!! Nick |
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