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Posted on 18/11/19 2:26:15 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
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Posted on 19/11/19 08:36:57 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
You chaete! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/11/19 08:39:09 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Oh Gordon! You Phillistine!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/11/19 3:07:15 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
 _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 20/11/19 05:26:54 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply  |
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Posted on 20/11/19 07:45:21 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Michael. I can't quite believe that you actually sourced the painting and extended it!! ....... and a very neat headroom solution too. This is classic Mariner. Right on form. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/11/19 08:27:18 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Wow! Some amazing work this work. Michael..incredible! The girl looks like she belongs in the scene! I agree with you David. I had so many beautiful rooms lined up to place the desk and not one of them worked. But you seem to have managed it pretty well. Loyd, I laughed out loud when I saw Rococo running through the bush (forest). It looks like its on a mission Frank..brilliant. I love the way you have opened up the drawer. Good to see you again Chris  Such a great idea!
http://vimeo.com/374355587  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 20/11/19 10:24:50 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1749 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Thanks Anna - Love your work as always - is that a Steve Caplin desk for grading PS FC entries/ -- are the fires down your way in your area? Mariner - fantastic work as always👍👍👍 Great games room Gordon - very innovative Loyd - nice idea animating the desk to run like an animal through the forest There has been some thinking outside the box this week Sara, thanks for comment on Vimeo - are the California fires affecting your area? Hate to watch the news anymore |
Posted on 20/11/19 1:37:41 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Thank you David. Yes, it took quite some time to dig out a photo of the room extention and a fairly good photo of the picture on the wall, but I just loved doing the research. As usual, it's the shadows which bring the picture to life. |
Posted on 20/11/19 1:41:48 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Thank you Frank. |
Posted on 20/11/19 1:47:45 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply |
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Anna, thank you. I have always liked your entries, especially the ones with atmosphere and interesting music. What a horrible time some of you are having down there in Oz. I do hope it has not hurt you, your family, or your friends. |
Posted on 21/11/19 10:03:25 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Thank you Frank and Michael. The fires are still going, just as they think they are under control another one starts. Fortunately, where I am, is relatively safe however these past couple of days you can barely see 200metres ahead for all the smoke that blown across. There is a thick blanket of smoke everywhere.Even indoors, the smell of burning and fire is very strong. At one point, I was running around the house, looking, convinced something was on fire! Predicting some rain tomorrow, which should ease these conditions. _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 21/11/19 10:22:39 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1749 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Well let's hope for rain - lots of it -should help to clear the air as well. |
Posted on 21/11/19 10:34:24 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
I am so going to steal that saying! My Ma used to say the rather insensitive "A blind man would be glad to see it!" _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/11/19 10:37:57 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Fabulous work and I am very late to the party but I will get a move on now _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/11/19 12:02:49 PM |
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Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
I did an animated version, too but not sure how to reduce it to 100k. Maybe this link will work. Splendid entries all round this week! http://www.evaroth.com/table2019  |
Posted on 21/11/19 4:30:52 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
And in just before the deadline! This could explain quite a lot ...  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/11/19 7:53:54 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1864 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Gordon very amusing
Michael nice and seamless
Not tonight Josephine
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Posted on 22/11/19 08:36:27 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
First to place the desk this week was DavidMac, with a glorious trumpification of the furniture. The gaudy setting is perfect, but it’s the items inside it that really ticked me: the crown, the missile pushing through the top… and is that a stack of gold mobile phones spilling out? I’m delighted to see Born2Run back after some years’ absence. And it’s a splendid comeback, with the desk immaculately grafted onto a wooden Beetle. I particularly like the way the leg has been bent over the front wheel. And the wooden driver is a terrific touch. Welcome home, Chris! A grand setting from Ben Mills, with a ghostly Napoleon with just the right amount of transparency. Well judged. I like how the woman drinking tea is entirely ignoring him… and she perches well on the edge of the desk. Nicely done. The desk in the wild from lwc, cavorting through the forest. I like the rocking movement. I’d love to have seen the parrot crap on the desk as it flies over, though. Frank has managed to track down the room in the museum where the desk is housed - and you can just make it out on the right of the picture. Fun arm and leg movements in the animated version, and a fine opening of the drawer - and great to see the polychaete back from a few weeks ago. I like how it zooms around the desk, but get rid of that shadow! Shades of Groundhog Day here, I think. An outstanding entry from GKB, with a gaming makeover. There’s so much extraordinary detail here: the table football handles; the distortion of the handles through the beer glass; the walnut side of the opened drawer; the reflections of the beer and game boxes; the subtlety of the Tomb Raider poster and the dartboard. I imagine there’s been some major 3D modelling going on here. Splendid, Gordon. A real cracker. Very fine work from Mariner, once again: a perfectly replaced background room (and matching that perspective can’t have been easy), and the woman sleeping at the desk is a tremendous fit. I like the stuff in the shelves, especially the pocket edition of Art & Design in Photoshop. The reconstruction of the painting is immaculate. Couple of points, though: her legs are much too far to the left (look at the position of the chair legs, and try to follow the line of her body); and I’d like to see those candles casting a shadow! A computer desk from tooquilos, complete with gilded keyboard (even if it does seem to be floating above the desk). I like how you’ve converted the drawers into a monitor - perfect for those who don’t like menus. I like the location shots in the animated version, and all the twinkling candles. To be honest, I’d love a desk like that. It looks like Eva Roth has been to Ikea - and picked up the usual assortment of stuff you always end up with when you only went in for a saucepan. I was going to comment on the angle of the desk, but seeing as it’s being carried I’ll let you off that one. And I enjoyed your first foray into animation! I hugely enjoyed Josephine Harvatt’s celestial desk, with its globe and “gone to lunch” sign. Perfect horizon placement, too! Although the French horn did rather baffle me. And, as promised, Napoleon courtesy of michael sinclair, in a suitably ornate setting. I like how he’s stroking that somewhat startled looking cat, but should his elbow be going up and down like that? Surely that’s the fixed point? |
Posted on 22/11/19 08:58:55 AM |
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Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply |
Re: Challenge 782: A rococo desk
Thank you, Steve. Yes, I thought one way of dealing with the weird angle of the table was to lift it and move it. I’ve done the occasional animated gif on this forum, but it’s probably a few years since the last one… |
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