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Posted on 12/10/17 6:37:06 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Josephine - I know it's an old joke, but when I saw your entry I had to laugh anyway.  _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 12/10/17 6:37:35 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Anna, I wish I was as talented as you are! _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 12/10/17 7:47:12 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1864 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
I'm recovering from some illness, so my apologies this week for no entry. Fantastic work Frank--please, please show us the original image! Michael  |
Posted on 12/10/17 8:05:50 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Sorry to hear you have been under the weather. Hope you are now on the mend. I miss your posts and I'm sure others do too. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 13/10/17 07:20:35 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply  |
Miss Meghan is here now sir
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Posted on 13/10/17 08:38:11 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Frank set the bar very high with his early entry: a beautiful snowbound scene featuring a couple of period sedan bearers. A faultless job, with the chair perfectly installed between them; and the snow adds real texture. Excellent work. A touch of the medievals from GKB, with a wooden-legged bearer causing irritation - very nicely done. I like the ruts in the road, and the cast of extras. Impressive shadows! A fun pun from Josephine Harvatt, but so nicely assembled that we just have to laugh. Very entertaining. A rather extraordinary vehicle from DavidMac, a camp extravaganza that's part car, part bed, part boiler and part wedding cake. Intriguing. But fix the shadow under the man's foot - it looks like he's floating. Beautiful work from Tom, turning the chair into an aquarium and locating it on a far-flung planet. I particularly like the way the sand bends around it. Great composition. A funny entry from James Arendell, with a peasant pulling the chair - now sporting a fine pair of wheels - containing a preachy Boris Johnson, who happens to be the UK's beleaguered Foreign Secretary. A fantastic piece of work, James, perfectly put together. I don't remember if you had a title before the big crash, but you've certainly earned one for this - I think Satirical Supremo fits the bill nicely. A really funny entry from Gerard, with the Queen waiting for a bus outside her palace. Those chairs make perfect bus stops - suitable regal! Your guardsman, however, is rather small; he's barely taller than the 5'6" Elizabeth, even wearing his bearskin. Are standards slipping in the Guards? A cross between a sedan chair and a Segway from tooquilos, with a self-balancing version prowling the main street of Dubrovnik. And many more local locations in the animated version, which has the chair zooming around the town - I love the bumpy steps, and the way it jumps over obstacles. Most impressed with the way you got those wheels to spin as it moves forwards. I laughed out loud at the glorious entry from Emy, featuring a self-powered sedan chair - I like the way you've got the straps over her shoulder. A small technical point: that's not the current Queen but her mother, who died 15 years ago. A fine fortune teller from Ben Mills, fitting perfectly inside the chair. The side windows appear to be reflecting a fairground, but we can pretend I didn't notice that. No customers? A period occupant of the chair from srawland, apparently waiting for his bearers... with a couple of well-placed bystanders. The little girl in the animated version is just brilliant - fantastic movement! Perhaps the jumps in the motion clips could be covered up by, say, a two-frame blend between the static positions? A rather clever idea from Deborah Morley, who has Doctor Who's Tardis regenerating while the Doctor himself remains the same. Clever idea. You need to have a think about how a banner could bend around a corner, though; if it's going up from left to right across the front, then it must continue going up around the side as well, rather than bending down. And are you sure you've left room for Peter Capaldi's legs? I thought the Tardis was supposed to be bigger on the inside... Remarkable work from Mariner, featuring Meghan Markle, girlfriend to Prince Harry, arriving at the palace in style - and there's his portrait on the wall behind. A beautiful entry, as highly polished as its own floor. I think the angle of the door might be a little too extreme, but that might just be me. Fantastic work this week. Michael Sinclair, I hope you get better soon. |
Posted on 13/10/17 09:03:53 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Thank you Steve, I could not have asked for a better critique. |
Posted on 13/10/17 10:18:40 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Thank you Steve (and Sarah) I think we could all do with a chuckle at the moment _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 13/10/17 2:32:11 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Thank you, Steve. Anna and I have had discussions on how you could get rid of the jumps but so far we have not been able to figure it out. There are four video clips of the girl: running, looking reaching, and startled. As far as we know there is no way of blending separate clips. Maybe you know a way? The best Anna and I know is to create a plausible distraction. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 13/10/17 9:18:56 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
I knew it was poor all the time. One would always suppose that soft shadows should be easier than defined shadows that need to precisely matched. Strangely I find soft shadows much harder. I played with this for a while and then because I had so little time just posted anyway .......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 13/10/17 10:52:46 PM |
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Emy
Composition Chef Posts: 390 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
"I laughed out loud at the glorious entry from Emy, featuring a self-powered sedan chair - I like the way you've got the straps over her shoulder. A small technical point: that's not the current Queen but her mother, who died 15 years ago." Thank you Steve..oh..boy..now you know that I dont follow this family at all!! LOL _________________ Why not! |
Posted on 14/10/17 11:58:06 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1749 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Thanks Michael and Steve . Wishing you a speedy recovery Michael --enjoy your entries. As per your request here's the original and as I mentioned earlier it wasn't too difficult to insert the sedan --it is most times more difficult to find the right backgrounds . This one only required some masking and adding snow and a few minor adjustments.  |
Posted on 15/10/17 1:00:14 PM |
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James Arendell
Satire Supremo Posts: 13 Reply |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Thanks for the comments Steve. Now, let's see if I can live up to my title! |
Posted on 18/10/17 09:57:56 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 675: The sedan chair
Thank you Steve. I made and rotated the wheels in Element 3D. I used this image as the base and extruded and textured it. Added an environment map to give it reflections.  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
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