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Posted on 10/01/18 3:42:55 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3723 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Thanks Josephine _________________  |
Posted on 10/01/18 10:33:07 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Animated version is here  |
Posted on 11/01/18 2:44:36 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Everyone knows the apple story for the discovery of gravity, but most people don't know that Newton's love of tennis helped him formulate his motion theories. OK, that's a complete fabrication on my part. I had real trouble rendering the spheres for this. I had wanted to illustrate all three of his motion theories, but ran out of time. Animation: http://vimeo.com/250626354  _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 11/01/18 2:46:22 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Gordon: Well done! Much better than my first animation! Anna: 
_________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 11/01/18 5:23:02 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Is wacky hair a prerequisite for scientists? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 11/01/18 5:25:58 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
What fantastic entries this week - and what a lot of animations! Well done Sarah - and lwc yours made me positively giddy! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 11/01/18 5:26:38 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Also loving Mariners piratical notion - living up to his handle? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 11/01/18 5:32:11 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Well, after everyones fantastic work mine is positively dull. This is the capsule that Tim Peake and others used to return from the ISS. Not sure if it is still in the Science Museum but thought Sir Isaac would have wanted to be there with the modern version of his telescope...  |
Posted on 11/01/18 8:14:19 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Great entries all! Phew back, sorry been away, not able to complete an entry. Happy New Year! Just about made this one. 
Maybe something a little to do with this(?) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3d/Secondlaw.ogv/Secondlaw.ogv.240p.webm |
Posted on 11/01/18 11:54:13 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
I consider my mission accomplished!  |
Posted on 12/01/18 05:32:58 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2817 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Thanks josephine. Yes, I love the sea. |
Posted on 12/01/18 09:22:53 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
GKB was the first to brave Newtonian dynamics this week, with neatly clutched Newton's Cradle in one hand (you know he didn't actually invent this, right?) and his Principia Mathematica in the other. I rather like Einstein peering over his shoulder. A beautifully realised animated version, with some fine spinning planets and solar flares. I like how the apple rolls into position - just kept hoping the earth would knock it out. I enjoyed the two 2001 references (the music and the space station) and of course Sputnik at the end. Excellent, Gordon - you should do more of these. A very shiny apple from lwc, with Isaac about to slice it using a remarkably large and dangerous-looking knife. I'd say it's the artist friend who can't distinguish left from right: those buttons should do up the other way. A fun second entry, with a tin foil hat to keep the aliens out - neat lighting on the face. A very smooth animated version - there must be a lot for frames in that gif! Interested to know how you created the swooshing light beams. Entertaining optics from DavidMac - I particularly like the way the prism casts a spectrum onto his face. That glint of light through the shutters is very well imagined, too, as is all the lighting in the scene. His soup's boiling over, though. I did enjoy the juggling Newton in the second entry. I was very amused by Darren's Sgt Pepper entry - particularly the way Newton's wielding the microphone, and the way the stand and cord are integrated into the scene. Very neat. A touch of the poetics from Josephine Harvatt, with nice lighting from the candle and the match accompanying the quote from Alexander Pope. (To which J C Squire replied: It did not last: the Devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo). Entertained as I was by Ben Mills's shiny apple, I was a little confused by the thought bubble. Are you really suggesting gravy on apples? You have some curious habits in the East Midlands, Ben. A neatly clutched knife from srawland, fitting very well into that hand. As for the cheese, though, I was thinking it would be better if we could see the side of it rather than head on - and then realised we are looking at the side. A touch more shading on the front, as it's facing away from the window, would make it look more three-dimensional: 
Oh - and wouldn't he be eating good old English cheddar, rather than that fancy imported Gruyere? I like the tennis setting in the second entry, and there's some great planetary action in the animated version - how did you model those spinning orbs? In Photoshop? A somewhat contemporary apple from James Arendell, neatly clutched (although he could really do with a couple more fingers). The hammer in the other hand might be about to void his warranty, though. I was very entertained by the spectrum plectrum in the second entry: were he and May separated at birth? As Facebook informs me - happy birthday, James. When I first looked at michael sinclair's nifty animation on my laptop, I thought what a convincing walking movement this was - because the laptop screen chopped him off at the knees. I suggest you do the same! You're never going to get those feet to work. A valiant attempt, though. An ingenious entry from dwindt, who has replicated Newton's left hand in order to get him chalking his cue. I really like the detail of the chalk stain on the fingers. A truly glorious second entry, with rings and painted fingernails as well as a very nicely clutched violin. When you say "waiting for your next ship", can you elaborate? I really like the way you rebuilt the fingers in the third entry - the rear lighting on the fingers is beautifully achieved. A host of magic tricks from Linda Eckert, as her Newton wields a playing card, dove, rabbit and fan. I like the idea of this, but I'd remove that hat - it makes him look too much like a lamb chop (do they still make this tiny chef's hats for chops? They were everywhere in the 70s). A fine scene culinary from Frank, who has added an apple pie - and, in the other hand, what looks rather like a rotten apple that has been turned into a candle. Either way, very nicely done. Not entirely sure how he's holding the pie, though: are there finger holes in the underside? A glorious piece of mysticism from Tom, whose Newton is surrounded not just by planets but a host of mystical symbols - including a somewhat piratical Masonic square and compasses. Is that a wry smile on his face? For some reason, tooquilos's Newton is picking oranges, not apples - but I do like the new youthful appearance brought about by his tinted hair. Some curiously un-Newtonian balls in the animated version, and that's a mighty sharp orange that produces such a wound! I really enjoyed the melting caused by the prism, and that's a magnificent rendered crystal lens. A really funny piece of work. A terrific film set from Mariner, with Newton's clothing doing service on a pirate ship. The makeup girl is a fine addition, as is the cameraman; I'd perhaps have chosen a green screen background rather than blue sky. And is that a marble balustrade? Seems a little heavy for a ship. A good view inside Major Tim's capsule from Deborah Morley, and I like how Isaac is holding that satellite like a telescope - very neat. Perhaps he could have been leaning out of the hatch? A quickie from Jota120 - does the snake naturally accompany the apple? Not sure about the hand - the colour is wrong, it's too small and it's wearing a wedding ring on the wrong hand. Been busy, Trevor? A fantastic load of entries this week, and good to see so many animations. |
Posted on 12/01/18 09:31:35 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2817 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Why a green screen? |
Posted on 12/01/18 10:05:16 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
More movie studio ........ ? _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/01/18 10:06:31 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Thanks Steve. Great entries all round. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/01/18 10:07:11 AM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 767 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Fantastic stuff everybody. Thanks for the kind words Steve. I really have to remember to be cautious when typing a post here, with all these creative minds around. "Waiting for my ship to come in," is not an idiom. I was literally waiting for the next ship. I'm a ship planner. That idiom or another man's dream is my reality. Their ship's keep on coming in but I've got to work them..... 
_________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 12/01/18 11:11:00 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3723 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Thanks Steve. I really enjoyed doing this one. And, yes, I do plan on doing more animations. Excellent work from everyone again. _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 12/01/18 1:23:16 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Thanks Steve - and for the riposte! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 12/01/18 2:31:45 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
Thank you, Steve. You are so right about the shading on the cheese. I don't have any other animation program to work with. However, it turns out creating spinning orbs is easy in Photoshop. Anna sent me a tutorial a few weeks back. I have found the hard part is getting them to render. The smallest one rendered just fine but the other two took forever and either crashed just before completion or rendered really fast and the resulting clip had nothing on it. I spent three evening just trying to get two usable clips. I should have had this done on Tuesday. I'm not sure if the problem is my computer or if it's CC 2018. The last crash report I sent back some choice words to Adobe. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 12/01/18 7:08:18 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply |
Re: Challenge 687: Newtonian mechanics
I never cease to be amazed at how many glaring details I can overlook. The light beams were created using DP Animation Maker, a Google search should provide links if you want to have a look at the software. |
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