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Posted on 13/02/19 4:39:19 PM
josephine harvatt
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Great chocolate pour!


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Posted on 13/02/19 9:35:28 PM
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Some delicious entries this week although I think that Social Services might have something to say about the HTCIP predilection for chocolate flavoured children

I am in Colombia for 4 weeks... land of chocolate, coffee ... and other less legal substances


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Posted on 13/02/19 10:25:09 PM
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GKB wrote:
Some delicious entries this week although I think that Social Services might have something to say about the HTCIP predilection for chocolate flavoured children

I am in Colombia for 4 weeks... land of chocolate, coffee ... and other less legal substances





Have fun... be safe!

Posted on 14/02/19 08:54:20 AM
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GKB wrote:
I am in Colombia for 4 weeks... land of chocolate, coffee ... and other less legal substances


Have a wonderful time! I would imagine you will come back with a photo or two ....... or three ...... or .........

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Posted on 15/02/19 01:21:53 AM
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Re: Challenge 742: What the font?
Thank you Loyd and Jo!!

I've been experimenting with Adobe Dimensions and thought Id have a quick go at this week's challenge to see if I could make the dome and the chocolate splashes. It worked out quite well.

However, I've looked for some type of masking ability (I want to remove the top splatters of the chocolate)but can't seem to find anything. Steve, do you know if you can mask things in Dimensions?



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Posted on 15/02/19 04:42:20 AM
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Anna, Very impressive!

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Animation: http://vimeo.com/317399738





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Posted on 15/02/19 08:43:46 AM
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Re: Challenge 742: What the font?
First to taste the chocolate this week was GKB, with a quickie - but some good texture in that chocolate, certainly. I’d have used Image Warp to wrap the resulting chocolate more around the baby’s head, to make it more three-dimensional.

A packed font from Josephine Harvatt, absolutely crammed with babies. I’m trying to work out how you assembled this - very nicely done, with a good sense of distance within the group. An impressive second entry, very neatly integrated into the scene - you’ve matched the grain remarkably well.

A floral arrangement of Ferrero Rocher from Mariner, and very tasty it is too. What really stands out, though, is the way you’ve turned that circular base into a table - and revealed the bottom of the font, turning it into a bowl. Clever!

An entire chocolate cathedral from DavidMac, and frankly I think it works rather well - the colour and texture are just right. I like his chocolate mitre. Interesting to see all the real chocolate iconography in the second entry - bizarre that such stuff would be available, and even edible. What kind of person wants to eat a chocolate Jesus? I like the baptism bar in the third entry; perhaps the background should be a little plainer to make it easier to see what’s going on? A glorious still in the fourth entry - but if you look at the reflection in the base, you’ll see that the reflected cleric really should bend around the contours of the copper, as if painted on the surface.

Some beautiful dancing sunbeams from lwc - very nicely achieved. I like the flickering candles, too. And good to see the chocolate-smeared kids in the second entry - with good light sources for those sunbeams. Very fine twinkly dust in the third entry!

Tremendous work from Frank, with a chocolate-smeared baby, and plenty of the stuff splashing onto the priest. I really like the drips over the side of the font, and the general air of exuberance. My only tiny criticism is that the baby is huge compared to the priest… but maybe he’s just a big baby.

A very happy baby from Ant Snell, clearly enjoying his chocolate bath. I like the crowd of laughing onlookers, but I’m concerned that they’re so bright compared to the dark baby, which pushes them very much into the foreground. They could do with darkening, and the baby brightening:



A devilishly fiery Tom - looks like it’s full of dragons. I like the chocolate lake it’s floating in, and the skeletal preacher. Beautiful reflections.

A mechanical font from tooquilos, with a petulant Willy Wonka (not a patch on Gene Wilder, in my opinion). Is that a barely visible Willy (oo-er) on the front? It should wrap around the shape of the font! Loved the Immaculate Confection in the animated version, and the conversion of the cathedral into the chocolate factory. Tremendous perspective on the font lid as it rises! And great dripping chocolate inside. I particularly enjoyed the how-to video on making the font model. Good to see the second entry, made in Adobe DImension. You can’t mask things in Dimension, no - but you can afterwards in Photoshop.

Looks like srawland has created a celestial fondue - cleverly suggested by just the hint of a hand at the top. Terrific heavenly glow in the animated version, and I’m so glad you included some chocolate dripping from the fruit as it’s lifted! I really like the detail of the people walking over the organ loft, and your friend’s voiceover is as tight as always.

Posted on 15/02/19 10:17:49 AM
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Steve Caplin wrote:
...... you’ll see that the reflected cleric really should bend around the contours of the copper, as if painted on the surface.


Yes I got a bit lost on his reflections.

Now I have a question Steve. Because there is nothing much to give scale between the font and the chair backs it is hard to guess its real size. It could be quite large some distance from camera or quite close and smaller. It is interesting to see that the entries have treated it in hugely differing scales (Joephine's has a fifteen baby capacity and others are filled by just one) ....... and for the most part they all work fine! It depends also to some degree as to whether you treat the stone circle below it as a floor level tiling or a raised plinth. We have done both in the various entries and again it mostly works. So I am curious to know what size was it really?

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Posted on 15/02/19 10:19:43 AM
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DavidMac wrote:
So I am curious to know what size was it really?


The font was about three feet in diameter. But you're right, it was hard to gauge!

Posted on 15/02/19 10:24:23 AM
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Steve Caplin wrote:
The font was about three feet in diameter. But you're right, it was hard to gauge!


Interesting ...... so my Chocolate Cathedral was about right but my still was far too small!

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Posted on 15/02/19 11:28:22 AM
lwc
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Re: Challenge 742: What the font?
Thanks for your comments Steve. A fun Challenge...

Posted on 15/02/19 11:56:56 AM
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Re: Challenge 742: What the font?
Thanks Steve, he's a 3 year old and obviously going to be a big boy. Anyway, I just used the upper part of the picture and carefully placed and sized the lower body into the bowl size to fit neatly within the confines of a somewhat large font. I had the same impression as you that he seemed big for the bowl. So I assumed a large font.

Posted on 15/02/19 2:47:25 PM
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Thank you, Steve.

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Posted on 15/02/19 5:18:41 PM
josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 742: What the font?
Thank you Steve - the clue to getting multiple baby images is to google "sextuplets"

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Posted on 15/02/19 8:59:52 PM
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Anna

‘The Immaculate Confection’ - that has to be one of the word’s worst puns. I love it

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