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Posted on 16/09/10 05:59:26 AM |
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Stefano Giacomuzzi
Modernist Maestro Posts: 146 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Fantastic Lonnie _________________ Stefano |
Posted on 16/09/10 11:23:57 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
http://vimeo.com/15020251  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 16/09/10 4:15:35 PM |
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LonnieK
Diorama Dreamer Posts: 238 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thanks Stefano. Where's your entry? _________________ Lonnie |
Posted on 16/09/10 7:09:22 PM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Fantastic Anna as always. Great things from everyone. Here's my offering. Mod Cons!  |
Posted on 17/09/10 08:05:54 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7047 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
A tricky subject this week, made more complex by the strong perspective in the scene. As always, you rose to the challenge. First to build was vibeke, with a fantastic match: the front of the house is a perfect fit. The only small problem is with the side, which appears rather too condensed. Look at the house to the left: the windows are perhaps half the apparent width of those on the front. Your building appears to have been on a diet! But the colours and tone work perfectly, and it's a grand building. An extraordinary view from LonnieK, with a rocket launcher in the background - a very fine fit. I particularly like the way the smoke drifts through the town, a very neat touch. An excellent perspective match on the second entry, although the frontmost column would need to lean slightly to avoid plunging through the house - or perhaps going through the roof would have been a better approach? A great Lonnie K trademark ethereal glow gives this image real polish. I like the idea of tomiloi's high-rise hotel, and the roof pool is a good addition. The trouble with choosing a mirrored building, however, is that it needs to reflect its new surroundings! Impressed and horrified by brewell's entry. Much as I like tacos, does such a building really exist? What on earth led the designers to believe that the best way to sell tacos would be out of what appears to be an inflatable mosque? Bizarre. An excellent fit, Bruce, although there's something a little odd going on about half way up on the left. A spectacular night scene from Les Moore, with some artfully lit-up windows and a very fine beastie crashing through the suburb. Tremendous detail - I really like the people running away, their shadows are perfect. The flashing light on the 'area 51' is an excellent touch, too. Curiously, my browser tells me this is a .jpg file, when it has to be a .gif to get the light to flash... confusing! A striking new runway from GKB, and a highly appropriate addition: Mildenhall does host a large US air base, after all. I really like the newspaper treatment, especially the textured page and the three headed dog from last week's challenge. There's also a huge quantity of detailed text here - a lot of work! Just a couple of points about typography: the headline is much too condensed and too widely spaced. The same goes for the body text - choose a lighter, serif font here. A hugely convincing entry from Ben Mills, with a building site that blends in to the background to an extraordinary degree. An extremely complex cutout, with perfect matching of angles and perspectives. Fantastic work, Ben. Good to see Paul2007 back, with a rather neatly flooded scene - I like the way the water goes inside the garages and yards. Of course, this image could really do with some reflections, but that would be a huge amount of work. A clever idea from Jota120, who has taken the scene and incorporated it into a vastly bigger landscape. I really like this approach. The only issue is that at this distance, the perspective difference between the front and rear buildings would be far less exaggerated. An entry from michael sinclair that's completely on-topic, which is unusual in itself. A very good blending of the new building in the back of the scene, and the rubble in the front: at times the rubble is a little soft in its blending, but the overall effect is impressive. I won't point out that you forgot to delete a bit of background at the top of the digger. A tidy self storage store from Deborah Morley, which fits nicely into the scene - I like the extra added shadow on the nearby rooftop. The perspective of the new building, though needs to be adjusted - and this isn't that hard a job. Look at the left side: it needs to follow the same line as the verticals in the building directly behind. Yours is leaning back a little. Only a little extra distortion would fix this! I enjoyed james's animation, in particular the movement of the dove, both when in flight and when stationary - nicely observed, especially the way it flies towards us at the end. The wind turbines seem the wrong colour for the background, though - too much blue altogether. And when they're in motion, do you think a significant amount of radial blur might give a stronger rotational effect? A truly extraordinary story told by tooquilos, with the plug being lowered in, the water spouting out of the handy pipe and the landscape gradually flooding, allowing the gondola from a few weeks back to float into view. Amazing attention to detail, and a terrific water texture. But you do need to watch those reflections, both of the house on the left and of the gondola: verticals reflect vertically downwards, not at an angle - despite what Apple keynote presentations would have you believe. Perspective matching becomes something of an irrelevance in Sophie's entry, as - apart from the verticals - the building defies all attempt to rationalise it. Certainly inspired by Daniel Libeskind, it's a dynamic mix of angles and projections. What would the Mildenhall town fathers make of this, though? Very good work all round - a most impressive week. |
Posted on 17/09/10 08:25:14 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thanks Steve, Made my day.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 17/09/10 08:51:44 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Great work from all this week. We were out most of last weekend, so no time to contribute. Hopefully will have a go this week. Nick |
Posted on 17/09/10 08:54:09 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thanks Steve. Nice banner Deborah. _________________ Why is there only one body to investigate Monopolies ? |
Posted on 17/09/10 4:26:17 PM |
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LonnieK
Diorama Dreamer Posts: 238 Reply |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Your comments are generous and most welcome, Steve. Thanks so much. _________________ Lonnie |
Posted on 17/09/10 7:01:55 PM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thanks Steve. I worked at the Verticals! Hope it showed. Lonnie, I didn't see your train image till now. Absolutely fantastic. Gordon, your runway was a great idea too. Lovely banner Deborah. |
Posted on 17/09/10 7:11:31 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thank you Sophie. _________________ Why is there only one body to investigate Monopolies ? |
Posted on 17/09/10 7:27:03 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Umm... so are you suggesting I should rethink my business plan? The oddness was my attempt to create a new roofline on the left. I'll go back to the drawing board before I put it to bed. 
_________________ The journey of a thousand hours begins with a single layer. |
Posted on 17/09/10 7:40:13 PM |
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Les Moore
Surreal Storyteller Posts: 92 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thanks Steve. Yeah I'm not sure why it says it's a .jpg file in your browser. I just right clicked it and checked the properties and it says it's a .gif...strange. Oh well...thanks again for the nice words. |
Posted on 17/09/10 10:07:11 PM |
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LonnieK
Diorama Dreamer Posts: 238 Reply |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thank you very much, Sophie. _________________ Lonnie |
Posted on 18/09/10 07:58:39 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Thank you Soph! Many thanks Steve for your comments also _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 20/09/10 08:19:47 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7047 Reply |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
And there was me thinking someone had really built this taco palace. Fantastic work, Bruce - it genuinely had me fooled! |
Posted on 20/09/10 9:24:27 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply |
Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Wow, thanks. It just goes to show that if you want to start a hoax, forget subtlety, go for outrageous. _________________ I aim to give pause. |
Posted on 23/09/10 1:37:39 PM |
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Kuham
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Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
This is brilliant of you, good imagination. Kuham |
Posted on 17/10/10 00:53:31 AM |
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dejá_vu
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Re: Challenge 317: Redevelopment
Hi Steve. I've come back to your forum to learn a little more with all this fantastic entries cheating with photoshop. I was reading some of all these backlog post and then I've found your question about animated JPG. Well, probably you know the breakthrough yet but the fact is that there is no way of animate a jpeg file as we use to do with gif files. What happen is that the browsers are smart enough to display an animated gif file in despite that its extension may be set incorrectly. So, what you have here is an animated gif with a bad extension name. The only way of animating jpeg files is just through Javascript and, as I've said at the beggining of this phrase, it must be "files", not just a file but several files displayed in order to create the illusion of being a unique animated file. As always, please forgive my poor english. I try to do my best. Well... I've got a lot of work putting myself up to date on your forum. Hope to send you an entry for the challenge soon. Nice to be back here, everybody. Greetings from Spain. _________________ There are men who fight one day, and are good men. There are men who fight a year, and they are better. There are men who fight many years, and they are very good. But there are men who foght all over their lifes. Those are the indispensable. Bertold Brecht |
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