| » Forum Index » The Friday Challenge » Topic: Challenge 755: UFO response unit |
|
Posted on 13/05/19 9:10:45 PM |
|
michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1864 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Thanks David for the feedback, and yes you're quite correct, so I've changed the shadow to be more in perspective.  |
Posted on 14/05/19 08:21:27 AM |
|
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Eighteen! What happened to golf? Rainy week? 
Anyway this one's great! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/05/19 10:12:52 AM |
|
Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Some gloriously silly entries so far. No time whatsoever this week, so had to make do with an image of flying saucers that I had photographed in Ireland a few years ago..  |
Posted on 14/05/19 12:35:07 PM |
|
tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
http://vimeo.com/336076579 Great entries so far! Gordon, I love Devil's Tower, in particular the way Richard Dreyfuss recreates it in his living room and then out of mashed potatoes! Loyd, that is terrific spinning action. David, I was always terrified of Robbie and The Robot (from Lost in Space) as a child but kept wanting to watch them with half closed eyes. I also like the way you have cast the shadows in Stonehenge.  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 14/05/19 12:56:55 PM |
|
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3222 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Great old UFO pics from Ireland Eva... 
Excellent Anna... I wish that I could make zooming effects as smooth as yours. David, the weather has been awful for golf so far this year, cold, rain, thunderstorms... I made two more this morning. Pure silliness: 
|
Posted on 14/05/19 1:01:21 PM |
|
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Lovely Anna. Love the atmosphere in the last two scenes. Is the policemen still saving up for the rest of his trousers?  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/05/19 1:03:58 PM |
|
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
I particularly like the disturbed circle of grass under the foreground saucer. A lovely detail .............. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/05/19 1:08:19 PM |
|
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Funny simple idea ....... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/05/19 1:22:21 PM |
|
tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Thank you Loyd and David. Budget cuts, David. The UFORU has been terribly underfunded these past few years and, of course, the first thing to be cut was the uniform trousers
_________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 14/05/19 1:29:24 PM |
|
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3222 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: The Wyvern
Sorry for posting so many Steve... but I remember your response to Mr. Sinclair, that we could make as many entries as we wanted, "within reason". I'm still pondering a number for "within reason". This one puts me at only 20% of what I have made this week.  |
Posted on 14/05/19 2:37:22 PM |
|
GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4001 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
http://vimeo.com/336102109 Excellent Anna, Did you make the robot voice at the beginning yourself? Don't know if you use Audacity but here is an excellent tutorial on how to create my favourite kind of robot voice in Audacity. http://freeaudacitytutorials.com/553/ Audacity download link here: http://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 15/05/19 07:37:12 AM |
|
tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Thank you Gordon! I laughed at Robbie introducing Audacity!! Even though its Robbie speaking..I could still tell it is your voice! I have downloaded it and will have a play with it soon. The voice I used was a sound effect and I mucked around with the speed of it. Loyd, brilliant dragon! Great wing movement. _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 15/05/19 09:58:20 AM |
|
Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Well spotted, David. The circle of grass detail actually was my starting point.. When I happened upon this grass circle it was immediately clear to me that a flying saucer had recently landed there.. hence the added UFOs..  |
Posted on 16/05/19 05:42:13 AM |
|
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Gordon, Robbie sounds very much like you. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 16/05/19 08:38:59 AM |
|
GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4001 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Anna and Sara .... MacRobbie the MacRobot? _________________  |
Posted on 16/05/19 4:27:24 PM |
|
GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4001 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Just a little flight of fancy when I really ought to have been doing something else with my day. If the Queen can have a day out sightseeing why not the UFOs .... wherever they come from? http://vimeo.com/336608300 _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 17/05/19 03:31:14 AM |
|
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
I realized I never put up my image and then I decided the shop looked a little dark. This Challenge has been a little ironic for me. I've started watching "The Orville" which is like Star Trek Next Generation, only the crew is more dysfunctional. It's very funny at times, while still being good science fiction. Animation: http://vimeo.com/336505927  _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 17/05/19 08:43:50 AM |
|
Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
First to respond to the call this week was lwc, with a siting outside a UFO museum (do these places really exist?). A very fine pulsating flying saucer, and I like the detail of the two aliens at the door. A really funny second entry, with the car taking off in pursuit, and a spacecraft that moves just too fast for us to be able to tell exactly what it is. A very appealing third entry - love the spinning UFO, and the disrupting beam. Going to have to take you to task on your perspective, though: the horizon needs to be halfway up those cars. A fun fourth entry, with an unidentified flying… squash? Piece of toast? You’re going to have to help us out here, Loyd. A glorious fifth entry - and yes, do post as many as you like! A homage to Ghostbusters from Ant Snell, with some cool overlay techniques and a nicely blended image. Not sure about the light sabre, or the amount to which Bill Murray has been condensed. Beautiful lighting from DavidMac, with Stonehenge casting fine shadows over the landscape - and I especially like the way the stones on the far side are brightly lit. I think this one works really well, David - perhaps it’s the angle of the flying saucer that makes it look static? Try tilting it slightly away from the camera. There’s a definite 1950s scifi feel to the second entry, with a range of disposable women being carried off by aliens. It’s more an approach we associate with Ben Mills, though. For the full 1950s effect, though, try adding an orange tint to the background. I do like the lettuce-headed aliens. I hugely enjoyed Ben Mills’s entry, with an angle on the spacecraft that really makes it look as if it’s about to land on the road. Perfect perspective match for the car - nice job, Ben. A very graphic image from GKB, with a hand-drawn road and sky and, I suspect, a 3D modelled flying saucer. I like how it spins as it comes towards us in the animated version, but not sure why it pixellates as it does so - did you render at a low resolution? A great view of the flat-topped mountain, and I really like the spinning radar dish. A great scene of the car being dissolved into fire - the 3D mesh looks particularly good. A fun second entry, with the world tour, very reminiscent of the sort of thing Anna used to do. And the final landing is terrific - really took me by surprise. Plenty of aliens populating Frank's entry, in a splendidly dystopian setting. I like the added lights on the cars, and the neat way the lettering on the back has been flipped along with the car. A very strong image. A fine animation from michael sinclair, which not only manages to be fully on-topic but also uses the starting image I supplied. Not sure about your logic re the static UFO, but I do like the way the lighting changes on it. A very fine second entry, with added lightning flashes. I like how Eva Roth’s entry shows UFOs making crop circles - what a cool idea. The compressed grass beneath the car’s wheels is a good detail, too, and the varying angles on the UFOs works well. When you say this is an image of flying saucers you photographed in Ireland, though - that sounds like an interesting trip! Looks like tooquilos has strayed into Area 51 - that’s certainly a fine array of detecting equipment. Some curiously translucent UFOs approaching Earth in the animated version - based on jellyfish, perhaps? I like the curiously deserted control room, and the magnetic car grabber. The final scene inside the alien ship is suitably horrifying - well done! A moody donut drive-in from srawland, with a really entertaining animated version - the spinning saucer, the flashing sign, all work together really well. __________________________ Very good fun this week. As it happens I’ve spent the week in France, painting a mural for a friend’s birthday. The trouble with paint is there’s no Undo key!  |
Posted on 17/05/19 09:05:14 AM |
|
GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4001 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Thanks Steve Just sorry I can’t do anything with your mural as I shall be away for the next week ... but I’m sure that someone will have a go. It looks good, though.
_________________ Always remember that you are unique - just like everyone else. |
Posted on 17/05/19 09:19:51 AM |
|
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
Re: Challenge 755: UFO response unit
Yes good idea. It would also have the secondary effect of revealing the light source a bit which would add a bit more 'bite'.
I did think of putting a dedication to him .... but then refrained ......
Although it is a trompe l'oeil, I like the way you have made it unashamedly a painting instead of attempting hyper realism. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
| page: 1 2 3 last |