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Posted on 15/03/24 06:42:39 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2828 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 995: Fatboy's Diner
You don't need to write about this one Steve. It's just a quicky I did to fill in some idle time, and it's failed to meet your deadline. 
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Posted on 15/03/24 10:03:37 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6838 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 995: Fatboy's Diner
First to enter the diner this week was Ben Boardman, with a clever integration into a Western saloon. Good shadows. I like the way you’ve repositioned the roof signs. Is that Arnie in the doorway, after the bikers’ clothes? As I watched the video I, like Anna, was drawn towards the market at the end. I like the lighting and cast of extras in the second entry, especially the neon signs on the roof. Watch out for those compressed cars with elliptical wheels, though. Is the Roadkill Café for real? Extraordinary. The Fonz is back, courtesy of Ant Snell, with a great relocation to a desert scene. I like the fact that we can see the desert through the end windows, although perhaps there should be some hint of glassine them. The car, however, is much too small: imagine those planters behind it are around hip height. I enjoyed the Kate and WIlls entry – I agree, she could certainly do with a lesson or two. And you’re right: I do indeed have a beard now, the neuralgia making it impossible to shave. It hasn’t quite reached those proportions yet, though. Great lighting from DavidMac, after a spot of whingeing about perspective. It looks great in its new location, very atmospheric. Just the one light in the interior though? It fits nicely into the Yukon entry, matching the icicles well. There’s something a little odd about the end facing us: should it be wider? It doesn’t quite seem to fit with the rest of the diner. The stacked entry works remarkably well, all the buildings obligingly piling on top of each other. The view through the windows would, of course, change with altitude, but I won’t quibble. The Cloud Nine Diner is very pretty, with Tennant and Sheen looking at home in that flying car. I think the shadows are too heavy, though. You say I don’t need to write about the For Sale entry, but of course the deadline is right up to the point at which I wake up on Friday morning. It’s an almost Mariner-style reconstruction of the diner, with all the interior stripped out. Nicely done – but oh! Those front steps! Desert time for tooquilos, with a beautifully constructed interior and a real sense of atmosphere. I like how you’ve kept the Fatboy sign on the window at the end. A really mysterious start to the animated version, heralding the beautiful UFO’s approach. It seems the aliens don’t like diners. A brave attempt from GKB, who has taken on the unenviable task of having us looking down on the diner. Which is all very well, but it does mean that from this location we should be looking down on its roof. Those cars are appropriate, but the perspective on them is too extreme for this distance: there should be hardly any change in scale from front to back. I like the Roswell Diner, though – and haven’t we seen that flying saucer from you before? A cute film poster – nicely composed, with good detail. An impressive infrared image from lwc, which has all the characteristics of this medium. Very effective, and I like the outsize new sign. The place looks closed, though – shouldn’t there be some light on the inside? A great relocation to Death Valley, with its huge crack in the road. The only thing that bothers me here is the side of the building, which should be more visible from this angle. I like the buzzard that flies across the third entry, but the perspective of the diner at this position is rather bizarre. A colourful image from michael sinclair, with a very impressive new interior that really fits the diner well. Those clouds… you do realise that if they were much slower they’d look more realistic, though? I’m glad you’re happy with Filmora, but of course the Friday Challenge is not the right place for this sort of discussion. I was really taken with Mariner's ski lift, incorporating an entirely redrawn diner. The interior is perfect, with skiers both sitting and standing, and it joins onto the support mechanism really well. My only issue is with the cables, which don’t seem to match the perspective of the diner. |
Posted on 15/03/24 10:10:37 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2828 Reply |
Re: Challenge 995: Fatboy's Diner
Thanks Steve. Somehow I didn't spot the cables problems. |
Posted on 15/03/24 10:33:14 AM |
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Ben Boardman
Printing Pro Posts: 471 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 995: Fatboy's Diner
Thank you Steve, enjoyable challenge. In the doorway is Tim Allen, he and the bikers are from the movie Wild Hogs. Somehow I compressed the whole car without noticing. Did anyone spot the crashed flying saucer & alien in the 2nd entry? Diner is near Roswell. The Roadkill Café is for real - thats a straight photo. https://www.routemagazine.us/stories/under-the-radar |
Posted on 15/03/24 10:47:20 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4946 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 995: Fatboy's Diner
Lonely night artistic license. Diner's closed. Just the chef alone prepping the next day.
You do have sharp eyes! Yes I've made the diner too narrow. The real oddity that I had failed to spot entirely is that I have completely failed to scale the width of the slats below the windows.
It does at the far end where we see through them. The rest is laziness because they are so dark. But, of course, reflections would change too if I had done it properly.
Yes. I wasn't really on top of that one.
That could just possibly be because it's a Mariner entry! I am afraid there's been some confusion there Steve. I had a bit of a love hate relationship with this week's entry. Didn't come easily. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 15/03/24 2:55:39 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2639 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 995: Fatboy's Diner
Flooding rain washed the soil from beneath the paved area in front and it collapsed downward... 
Thanks Steve...! |
Posted on 17/03/24 02:47:24 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2804 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 995: Fatboy's Diner
Thank you, Steve. _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
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