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Posted on 28/12/12 08:01:26 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
http://vimeo.com/56362193 Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. Here's to a happy and healthy New Year   _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 28/12/12 11:15:31 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Ooh! That has to be my favourite this week, Anna ! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 29/12/12 03:32:02 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
tooquilos..........Simply awesome...............HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, too!  _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 29/12/12 04:01:47 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
 _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 30/12/12 09:34:37 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Thank you so much Josephine and Joey!! Much appreciated _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 30/12/12 10:23:30 AM |
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Garfield72
Montage Manceau Posts: 353 Reply  |
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Posted on 30/12/12 4:17:15 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Fantastic Anna. Not all done in Photoshop I presume? The Queen stopped off on a recent visit to Bristol...  |
Posted on 31/12/12 05:04:02 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Thanks Deb! It was a combined effort between Photoshop, After Effects and Particle Illusion and all brought together in Premiere.
And of course the girl was courtesy of "The Full Montage" _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 01/01/13 04:17:59 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
1st of January and one of my resolutions is to participate more.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 02/01/13 1:39:24 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Delightful Vibeke, I do hope you are able to keep to your resolution. http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/weigh.gif |
Posted on 02/01/13 6:07:45 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
James! That is splendiferous!  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 02/01/13 8:02:44 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Thanks James, I will certainly try. You lovely cartoon looks the way I feel after Christmas, so perhaps my resolution should have been more exercise and less computer? _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 03/01/13 06:04:31 AM |
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Linda.Eckert@wanadoo.fr
maîtresse marocaine Posts: 91 Reply |
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Posted on 03/01/13 8:32:49 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
What a lot of interesting entries. Enjoy. Anna you seem to have a great skill pulling all the tools together, impressed. Happy New Year all!. Only quick from me sorry.. travel.. I have problem with weight. Its not absolute. E.g. if in ISS you weigh 0. So the mass is more important. Gravity is proportional to mass via inverse square of distance, as per Newton and Einstein, though Einstein puts Relativity in there!!!. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_versus_weight Density (mass by volume) another interesting property. Osmium really dense. Lead 11, gold 19, Osmium 22. A Black hole 4E+17 Just when you are trying to form an interstellar cluster he comes along .... but he will be consumed ... slowly 
Pay-by-weight 
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Posted on 03/01/13 8:59:59 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Great works, especially yours Anna, it is amazing piece of work, great effects (After effects?)  _________________ The most beatiful thing we can experience is mysterious. It is the source of all true art and sience. - Albert Einstein |
Posted on 03/01/13 9:16:51 PM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Just popped my head in to see most recent entries. I like your presentation Trevor. If I'm right you've got one or more skeletal faces showing in your stellar explosion. I think it works rather well. |
Posted on 03/01/13 10:09:39 PM |
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Whaler
Visual Viking Posts: 330 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
It's been a very long time since I entered anything here at this forum, but here's my entry for this week's challenge. Just like Jota120 I have an issue with weight and mass and so I also placed the weigh in outer space to rid myself of the problem. According to wikipedia the mass of planet Earth is 6^1024 kilogramme. Just imagine what the mass of that weigh would be!  _________________ Only in my brightest moments I understand myself |
Posted on 03/01/13 10:57:36 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1871 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
This quaint antique weighing machine will attempt to dive into a bucket of water from the top of a skyscraper...Oh dear! That's a shame! 
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Posted on 04/01/13 08:58:42 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7052 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
First to customise the weighing machine was Josephine Harvatt, with a striking Doctor Who image - whose machine is now the time controller of his Tardis, as indicated by the Today marker on the top and the subtle BCE/CE indicators beneath. That's very politically correct of you, Josephine - BC and AD too contentious? I like the stark simplicity of this, very neat. Intriguing work from Ant Snell, as the machines gush out jets of air to become hoverboards. A great selection of riders there, good choice of poses. The shadows seem too strong, though, and shouldn't they be more directly underneath to give a sense of height? I like the white jets, not sure about the yellow. Another Doctor Who theme, this time from GKB - and it's a marvellous wedding scene, beautifully realised. I like the top hat and bow tie on the dalek, and the veil and flowers on the bride; all the confetti ties everything together very neatly. Splendid work, Gordon! and a very poignant second entry. Gulp. A typically subtle entry from Nick Curtain, with a single feather tipping the scales to 60 kilograms. There's a metaphor in here somewhere! A beautifully conceived feather, with just enough transparency to give it extra lightness. Mariner ponders the fate of all metal objects in his despoiled lake - and very nicely achieved. When masking the objects, though, you should avoid painting the mask in a straight horizontal line instead, it should follow the shape of the object more. For instance, on the shopping trolley, the front leg should be going into the water closer to us than the rear one. Of course, this means adjusting the reflections as well, but the end result is that the crossbar between the legs is now parallel to its reflection: 
I was impressed by the way Frank has distorted the weighting machine - a neat destruction effect, especially on the platform. I suspect that the overall image may not be entirely politically correct in today's more liberal climate, though - after all, she might just be big-boned. Now that's the weigh to do it... katew has a clearly non-overweight passer-by with a newly created pile of discarded clothes. It's neatly accomplished piece, with good lighting - but are her feet being eaten away? There seems to be something odd going on down there! I like the idea of brewell's celestial judgement machine, its dial moving between heaven and hell (and with an awful lot of purgatory in between). God being shown the new labour-saving invention, perhaps? Most entertaining: but maybe the clouds should be bubbling over the base of the machine in a slightly more cloudlike way? Very amused by sjef's detailed petrol station, with the owner trying to persuade the machine to give forth. I love the Caplin branding - especially how it appears on the sign and the cans as well. And are the two men twins? A ghastly visual pun from Eggbox, but then I did start it... a good matching of colours, Ted, but with the anchor leaning towards us isn't it likely just to topple off the platform? Looking forward to the other 35 naval sayings. A complex animation from James, crammed full of detail - the OPEN sign that spins as the truck drives past, the turkey flying in to land on the weighing machine, the resulting skeleton as the eagle swoops in - and all rushing past at such high speed you have to watch it over and again to take it all in. It took about a dozen viewings before I noticed the truck driving round the back of the burger bar. Excellent! And the second entry is really, really funny - especially the way the machine "shakes its head". Genius! A very moving piece from Emy, whose homeless tramp has collapsed on the machine. Great detail here: the moved dial on the weighing machine, the fact that he's lying on a bunch of supermarket food bags - very nicely conceived, Emy, and good enough to earn you a title. We don't know anything about you apart from the fact that you're from Florida, and your avatar suggests you're either a 13-year-old boy or the rather attractive mom standing next to him. Assuming the former, I think Composition Chef fits the bill here - but do tell me if I've got it wrong! The best in a long series of increasingly polished work from you. I look forward to many more. Even before I check out the animation, there's a sense of wonder to tooquilos's entry: the machine sparkles with energy, the glass now seems to be a portal into another dimension, and even the alley has taken on a Harry Potter glow. The animated version is a work of tremendous imagination and beauty - I love the Roger Dean style cliffs at the end! And good to see a couple of fullmontage figures creeping in there. Anna, this is really glorious. Your special effects budget must have been huge! A very neat domestic scene from joeysala, with the machine put to work as a set of household scales. What makes this so perfect is the precise matching of the perspective of the weighing machine with the rest of the scene, and the delicate siting of the bowl of fruit on top. I like the HotChiPs branding on the bowl, too. Just a couple of very minor points: the flour is out of focus in the foreground, which is a little at odds with the very sharp machine even closer to us; and shouldn't the dial have moved even a little? But this is nitpicking - it's a really splendid entry. I like Garfield72's Santa in a snowy blizzard, with his hefty bag of gifts and the hint of a reindeer in the foreground. There's a real sense of the depth of winter about this scene, and the snow ties it all together neatly. Good work! An entertaining image from Deborah Morley, as HM the Q takes time out to check her diet's going according to plan. I assume that machine measures imperial weight? A charming image from Vibeke, with a pair of dancers stepping on and off the scales - rather nicely placed in a field of heather. Great to see you back, Vibeke, but I do have to raise the perspective question: the angles of the machine point to a very low horizon, but in your background it's off the top of the shot! A remarkable composition from Linda Eckert, with the weighing machine neatly placed against the front wall of an antiques shop. You've customised the shape well to fit in with the perspective of the scene, but you need to look at both sets of dimensions. Use the steps as your guide: the sides of the machine need to follow the angle set by the sides of the steps, as they more or less do, but the front of the machine must follow the line set by the front of the steps as well: 
I enjoyed Jota120's entry, particularly the lighting on the machine, but as ever somewhat baffled by the accompanying footnotes. Are you feeling weighed down by your pockets full of osmium, Trevor? A typically subtle entry from Emil, the torchlight revealing the last known site of the stolen weighing machine. Very nicely conceived - but is there a little too much light on the photo for such a narrow torch beam? A rare entry from Whaler, with the machine now hurtling through space while, literally, carrying the weight of the world. Terrific lighting - those are very well conceived shadows. Great to see you back, Hans-Erik, it's been far too long! A typical triptych from michael sinclair, telling the story of the machine being kicked off a skyscraper before landing just a little too far from the bucket on the ground. I like the way it has crashed into the pavement, but in the middle frame shouldn't the blur be more tapered towards the top of the building? A most entertaining start to a chilly January. Happy new year, everyone. |
Posted on 04/01/13 09:37:47 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 434: The weigh of the world
Thanks Steve. _________________ 76.38% of all statistics are made up on the spot. |
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