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Posted on 30/08/18 11:24:18 AM

DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 720: The fleamarket chair

Mariner - Stunningly clean as ever!

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Posted on 30/08/18 11:43:10 AM

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Thank you Loyd, David and Sara

I really enjoyed this one. I’m pleased it conveyed the sense and mood I had in my mind. Thank you

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Posted on 30/08/18 11:49:22 AM

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DavidMac wrote:
My original had a very cheeky and buxom young girl. My wife took one look at it and accused me of being a dirty old man so I decided discretion was maybe the better part of valour and replaced her.

Just wanted to re-assure that it was the girl I replaced and not my wife .........

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Posted on 30/08/18 3:24:52 PM

Mariner
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David wrote:
Mariner - Stunningly clean as ever!

Thanks David. I always try to get very hi-res images, extract, then reduce to fit the frame.

Posted on 30/08/18 6:28:42 PM

Deborah Morley
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Could have carried on tinkering with this for ever and still not got it right...

Posted on 30/08/18 6:54:01 PM

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Deborah Morley wrote:

A couple of my favourite characters. I’m never quite sure whether I like to model myself after Gromit or Snoopy. I think it’s something to do with my cold, wet nose.

Good to see you up and running Deborah.

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Posted on 30/08/18 7:09:02 PM

DavidMac
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Deborah Morley wrote:
Could have carried on tinkering with this for ever and still not got it right...

Looks pretty damn right to me Deborah!

Beautifully matched.

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Posted on 30/08/18 8:47:59 PM

michael sinclair
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Nice work everyone.

Anna great work: I found your entry to be particularly poignant and endearing.

Posted on 30/08/18 9:48:16 PM

Jota120
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Finally only had limited time for this.
Great entries all.

Posted on 30/08/18 10:04:38 PM

Ant Snell
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9:45 on Thursday night so the quickest entry I have ever done I think.

Sorry Steve, perspective is all wrong but no time to fix it. It’s the thought that counts [

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And to top it all , Just spotted a crucial spelling error. Just one of those days Time for bed I think.

Posted on 31/08/18 07:19:33 AM

Steve Caplin
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This week’s first entry was from lwc, who placed the chair in a post-nuclear setting, complete with noxious gases. It’s a good image, but I’m not sure why you chose this location! I enjoyed the second entry, making good use of MiniMe.

A spectacular animation from michael sinclair, with the chairs zooming around a well-shaped rollercoaster - brilliant work. And a truly glorious second entry, with the chairs on a ski lift: I really like the pulsating wheels and cable. Tremendous.

An ingenious transformation of the chair into a cement mixer from Ben Mills, with Ben’s trademark added eye candy. The zoom effect certainly draws the eye!

A beautifully constructed scene of desolation from tooquilos - and many more such scenes in the animated version, which depicts nicely animated views of fairground destruction. Splendidly desolate images, matched only by the most miserable cover of a Paul Simon song I’ve ever heard.

A complex scene from DavidMac, with an entirely unperturbed woman about to meet a watery fate. I was confused by the fact that the boy throwing the ball is behind a woman who’s walking away from him - move him to the foreground, and I think his role in the proceedings will be much clearer.

An outer space scene from srawland, the chair floating in the cosmos. I like the pomposity of the animated version, with the chair zooming around the universe; the shadow on the moon’s surface is particularly good (except that it needs to bend up over that rock, and be hidden by the top of it). Cute alien! I do find, though, that the way to make something look as if it’s floating is to place it at a slight angle:

A lovingly restored chair from Mariner, with a gymnast balancing rather improbably on one of the wheels. Very elegantly done, but I have to query your perspective. Surely if the top and bottom bar of the chair support are both horizontal, as we presume they must be, then the top one should point down towards the horizon?

I greatly enjoyed Deborah Morley’s Wallace and Gromit tribute, complete with marrows and bizarre homemade contraption. What? No cheese, Gromit?

A fine fairground ride from Jota120, the chair slotting neatly into its space. I think that girl needs some sort of restraint, though, or perhaps she’s just too zen to notice the swirling about.

An echo of the Village People from Ant Snell - although I can’t imagine how your mind made the leap from that chair to a wedding scene. Weddinging? It might jus catch on.

Posted on 31/08/18 08:47:57 AM

Mariner
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Quite right, Steve. Thanks for the correction. I must have been asleep.

Posted on 31/08/18 10:58:46 AM

Jota120
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Thanks Steve,
Yes I thought its the Zen meditative state keeps her in place.

Posted on 31/08/18 12:01:41 PM

DavidMac
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Steve Caplin wrote:
I was confused by the fact that the boy throwing the ball is behind a woman who’s walking away from him - move him to the foreground, and I think his role in the proceedings will be much clearer.

Good point. Yes. She was the last thing to go in and by then I was so disillusioned with the whole thing that I wasn't paying proper attention - just wanted it finished.

Thanks Steve.

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Posted on 31/08/18 2:25:28 PM

srawland
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