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Posted on 21/01/18 12:07:33 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Cap’n Caplin sails the Queen Elizabeth. At Port-Revel in France there is a quite extraordinary training facility for ship’s captains and harbour pilots. It consists of a large man made lake and a series of waterways that replicate the Suez and Panama canals and other navigational hazards and harbours. The students navigate these in boats about the size of a canal boat powered by ⅛ to ¼ horsepower electric motors. The power to weight ratio and delays built into the steering and other controls replicate exactly those of their life size counterparts. The facility is equipped with cargo carriers, oil tankers, container ships and cruise ships. Each Captain sits in a seat which places his viewpoint where it would be from the bridge of the real equivalent. From their he gives instructions to the navigator at the wheel for engine power, compass bearing and so forth. Todays ships are huge and heavy with enormous kinetic energy to be controlled. For a fully loaded 350,000 tonne tanker cruising at a typical 13 to 14 knots a full emergency stop with all engines in full astern is between two and three three miles. Although scaled down it as real as a simulation can be made as it is using real physics. Computer simulations can’t equal this and pilots and captains come from all over the world for training at this bizarre facility. Here we see Cap’n Caplin taking the Queen Elizabeth for a spin.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/01/18 2:36:24 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Thank you Sara and Josephine. Sara, have you tried Hit Film Express yet? Sound tracks can be imported into Hit Film just like any other file. Some of the sound effects in the sinking ship film were from my own archive - yes, even the ship's horn which was part of a film I shot a couple of summers ago while on a trip along the Norwegian coast. The Isaac Newton and the sinking ship films could both have been made in the Express (free) version of Hit Film. _________________  |
Posted on 21/01/18 4:17:59 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
I know its jerky, even though it's a 50 framer, but yer get the idea 
Can anyone guess what ocean liner it is in the background? 
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Posted on 22/01/18 04:37:34 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Jo, I love the doll’s house! Another great animation Gordon! Michael, is it the Queen Mary? And I think that may be the Spruce Goose flying over?? Another great animation and thank you for the image! http://vimeo.com/252020762  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 22/01/18 05:00:54 AM |
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Sue.Martin
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Here is my first ever entry in a Friday challenge. I've been researching marine fossils lately, so the prehistoric oceans are on my mind. 
Hi-res here I should know in about ten seconds here if I did everything properly! 
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Posted on 22/01/18 05:23:09 AM |
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Sue.Martin
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
[quoted] josephine harvatt wrote: Seeing as how you asked ... a bit dusty after 25 years (aren't we all) ... maybe the boat is a memento from one of his cases - the Gloria Scott perhaps? It is delightful how well you caught the likenesses of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I would be embarrassed to tell you how long I gazed at all the details before realizing--Great Scott(!)--that there is something highly significant resting on Holmes's desk.  _________________ Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. |
Posted on 22/01/18 08:23:50 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Welcome to the forum Sue. Thanks Anna. It was fun doing this one. May I just preempt Michael and say that the aircraft is a Boeing 314. A friend who lived in Livermore, California, flew them in the 1930s before becoming a test pilot at Muroc Air Force Bace, later Edwards AFB. _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 22/01/18 1:51:23 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Thank you Sue and welcome to the challenge! I love the colours you have used _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 22/01/18 1:54:54 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Anna - fabby magic light effects - also the stained glass background - where did that come from? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 22/01/18 8:51:12 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
[quoted] tooquilos wrote: Michael, is it the Queen Mary? And I think that may be the Spruce Goose flying over?? No!, and No! Gordon has already answered the plane identity, but the answer to the ship on the horizon is--ironically--and coincidentally already stated (unintentionally) in one of the forum member's entries: look through the entries, and you will find. Nice work by the way Anna. PS is the Queen Elizabeth doing the "Cha, cha cha" towards the end of your video?
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Posted on 23/01/18 00:37:45 AM |
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Ben Boardman
Printing Pro Posts: 615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
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Posted on 23/01/18 04:50:05 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
It’s more of a solo swing dance, Michael
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Posted on 23/01/18 04:50:57 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
_________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 23/01/18 04:52:31 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Thanks Jo..this the image I started with..so with a bit of colour correction and blending modes, it turned out much more interesting than the original image.  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 23/01/18 3:23:25 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
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Posted on 23/01/18 3:29:56 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Its lovely _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 23/01/18 7:36:40 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Ok the first pic shows what I had to do the Lockheed Constellation to make it appear it was in flight, and not coming in to land--very tricky. 
The second animation has "reversed" the roles of the ships in my first entry: The Queen Elizabeth is now on the horizon and the Normandie is now in the foreground. David's entry revealed the name of the mystery ship.
LWC (what does L stand for? Steve thinks it might be Lawrence, but I'm going for Larry!) Anyway, Damn good work, and 75 frames to boot. 
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Posted on 23/01/18 9:25:25 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Thanks Michael - it stands for Loyd with one L. I had to work at getting the original animation down in size to under 10MB just so it could be uploaded... was 15MB. For fun I've posted a few other animations in the banner section, most of them are under 1MB. |
Posted on 24/01/18 01:30:53 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Loyd, your aquarium is wonderful. Strange though, I can see it on my phone and iPad but not on my computer screen..anyhow, the bubbles, filtered light and the swaying reeds just make this. _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 24/01/18 02:16:09 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply |
Re: Challenge 689: Float Michael's boat
Thanks Anna - I'm very glad you like it. It's all in the software, a little photochopping by me, a lot of FX, a bit of trial and error, etc., I used four different programs to cobble up the aquarium. It boils down to pushing the right buttons. To be honest I had to make about ten of these things before I was satisfied with the final result. It is strange that you can't see it on your computer screen... makes no sense at all. For me it's a little like everyone's video productions. Sometimes I can see them and sometimes not. (My security anti-virus provider doesn't like Vimeo part of the time.) |
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