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Posted on 23/01/20 04:59:28 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
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Posted on 23/01/20 05:03:23 AM |
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Mariner
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"Pleased to meet you! Hope you guessed my name!"
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Posted on 23/01/20 05:10:00 AM |
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Mariner
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Beep Beep!
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Posted on 23/01/20 06:31:55 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Josephine, I burst out laughing when I saw yours. Not only is the idea ingenious but the look of seriousness and pride on Lancelot's face is hilarious! Thank you David, Michael and Frank  Michael, I can't decide which one I love the most out of your entries. Meticulous work.
Michael, the soundtrack to the video is by a Finnish metal band called 'Nightwish'- the track is called 'Our decades in the sun' _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 23/01/20 10:38:16 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Thanks Anna. Floor Jansen. Lovely voice. |
Posted on 23/01/20 10:59:32 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5776 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Michael. Hard choice but the guitar comes out tops for me ...... although turning the big curve into a sail is very clever and unexpected. Interesting that not one single entry has treated this as a building. We have all gone off at unexpected tangents. A really good week. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 23/01/20 11:34:14 AM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Michael - nice work as always - great ideas - I'll go with the guitar and agree with David's comments above. |
Posted on 23/01/20 12:25:06 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1871 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Stone age Gif-man marvels at the work here especially Frank's "grunt, grunt" 
Too much this week for me; however, here's one I made earlier ( 8 years ago), but using Sydney Opera house 
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Posted on 23/01/20 10:06:02 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Thanks Michael - love your Grunt man - looks like me starting on a Friday challenge or before morning coffee. |
Posted on 23/01/20 10:30:37 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Thanks for the kind comments - some lovely whimsical entries this week and Frank playing a blinder !!! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 24/01/20 03:53:04 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
David, Frank, thank you for your comments. You have both surprised me because I thought the boat was more a more attractive graphic. Isn't it hard to see one's own work through the eyes of another? |
Posted on 24/01/20 08:12:27 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
First to tackle the opera house this week was lwc, with a really funny comic Valkyrie. It’s the distortion of the background, especially in the sky, that really make this work - really well judged. Impressive headgear from Ant Snell, looking remarkably like the sort of thing fashion designers like to tease us with. The peacock feather decoration breaks up the concrete nicely. Extraordinary blending from DavidMac, whose opera house makes a perfect beak. Great subtlety here, and a really appealing image. The many and bizarre add-ons in the second entry give it a Bond villain-level of technological wizardry; and, yes, I agree that the paddle in the third entry is a much better fit. The house in GKB's entry looks like the one from Psycho; but of course, all eyes are on the snail (ha ha - see what I did there?). I like the way it glides across the screen in the animated version, but I think it could do with a punchline. Wow! If you’d shown me this entry a year ago and asked who created it, I’d never have guessed it could be Frank. The cinematic depth is extraordinary, with a soundtrack that really enhances the action. The retexturing of the opera house to make a battle-scarred spaceship is tremendous, and I really like how the saucers re-enter it at the end. Amazing, Frank. Best yet. A space entry from tooquilos, with great sci-fi texturing. The interesting angle, and the symmetry, suggest that you’ve 3D-modelled the building. The animated versions would seem to bear this out. A really interesting approach to the star movement, and there’s a great sense of density to the underwater sequence (I have no idea how you achieved this.) Great to see the ‘how to’ section at the end, too. Fabulous. I’d conceived of the opera house as a helmet, too, but nothing like the one Josephine Harvatt came up with. Is that leather flap hinged so it can go over his face? If so, how doe he see out? And should the chap on the left really be doing that in public? Isn’t it interesting how symmetry can make sense of even the most bizarre shapes. Mariner's guitar is a great shape, although I suspect you aren’t a guitarist - you couldn’t reach the high frets with your left hand without lacerating your wrist. I’m intrigued by the scale, though; is that a huge guitar, or a tiny tree? A very un-Mariner-like second entry, with a really goofy expression and some nicely asymmetric horns. More comedy in the third entry - and I really like this one. Except the front of the boat seems to be on a different plane to the back… Good to see michael sinclair’s opera house again. Wrong opera house, but there you go. |
Posted on 24/01/20 08:40:43 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Thanks Steve. No, I am not a guitarist, but I knew when I did it that the fretboard was too long. It is a 12 string electric guitar, which I have never heard of, and there are no knobs to regulate the sounds. Artistic licence! Yes I had a lot of trouble with the bows of the boat. It is very hard to make it look right. Have a go yourself. |
Posted on 24/01/20 09:36:21 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
Thank you Steve There are a couple of things which I did to create density.
First one was to darken and blur the background mountains. Secondly, I created fine floating particles, blurred them out as well. Thirdly, I placed a video overlay of very subtle movement and turned the opacity down to around 20%. Last thing are the rays - they also move very slowly. _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 24/01/20 09:46:19 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
I counted six strings and six machine heads! |
Posted on 24/01/20 10:04:41 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3123 Reply |
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Er, oh. What's a machine head?  |
Posted on 24/01/20 11:30:39 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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I was going for a plainer version of this  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 24/01/20 12:06:42 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5776 Reply |
Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
.... and a very bizarre arrangement of frets ..... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/01/20 12:15:56 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Indeed! Twice as many as there should be. I suspect Mariner is not a musician. |
Posted on 24/01/20 12:23:58 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5776 Reply |
Re: Challenge 789: The Opera House
I'm not an ornithologist ........ but I made a parrot. I am not a naval architect ........ but I made a ship. That's the fun of it! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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