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Posted on 05/03/23 7:26:53 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Really fun stuff this week, great work everyone...!  |
Posted on 05/03/23 7:28:51 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3130 Reply |
Re: Challenge 945: Quadstone
Are we having fun yet...?  |
Posted on 05/03/23 7:58:55 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5564 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 945: Quadstone
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 06/03/23 00:24:37 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Ben Boardman wrote: It appears that Flintstone animation cells have no shadows. Anna Were they invented then? Ben - I guess not, either that or it saved a lot of animation time. |
Posted on 06/03/23 8:48:34 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
This is not actually meant as an entry this week. I did this quickly on my laptop in Affinity Photo which I have never actually used before - I think I am near the bottom of the learning curve as the resolution is quite low. So there I was walking around Norwich this afternoon when I thought 'I know that fish shop'. So I thought I ought to put it on the forum. I parked my car and me and my doggy, Rags, had our pic taken. It feels weird actually being 'Photoshopped' into something 'live' 
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Posted on 06/03/23 10:31:03 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Pretty cool Gordon... |
Posted on 08/03/23 10:28:09 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Loyd, I love the realistic way the dust is kicked up, and I would have given you ten out of ten, but your wheels ain't spinning. 
Spectacular graphics Anna.
I concur with Mr Caplin: I am consistent 
Fifty frames for the sky and two for everything else
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Posted on 09/03/23 01:33:00 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3130 Reply |
Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Funny you mention that, I tried to spin the wheels, but when I added the dust/dirt/gravel, they wouldn't spin. I've been working on a fix for that issue and finally was able to make them spin w/dust, etc. I also repaired the lights while I was at it...
Your buggy driver is also a handsome bloke... 
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Posted on 09/03/23 12:16:42 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Looks much better Loyd - nice job. David - like your entries and your drawing - well done. Gordon - needed that last week |
Posted on 09/03/23 12:48:19 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Fred learns to drive - and what not to do while driving! http://vimeo.com/806313331 |
Posted on 09/03/23 4:02:05 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3972 Reply |
Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Some nice work again this week. Sorry I haven’t been able to come out to play this week, I am in north Norfolk sitting in front of a log burner watching the snow falling. Back next week. _________________  |
Posted on 09/03/23 9:52:20 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
That's much better Loyd! |
Posted on 10/03/23 05:47:26 AM |
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tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
_________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 10/03/23 08:03:37 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
First to drive the Flintstones car this week was lwc, with a run off a cliff. I like the idea, but (a) shouldn’t the car rotate as it falls? And (b) given that it’s foot-powered, what’s causing the explosion? I see I make a guest appearance in the second entry, in your Michael Sinclair tribute animation. You forgot the crazy busy sky! Good spinning action in the third entry. My favourite element in DavidMac's classy reconstruction – and it took me a while to notice it – is the stone movie camera in the foreground (you can.tell it’s an old-fashioned one because it’s hand cranked). Nicely assembled, David. I particularly like the texture on the rebuilt front wheel. A fun second entry, too, with what looks like a 3D modelled cast. That’s a curiously vegetated golf course, though. A fine drawing in the third entry, showing no small amount of skill. I’d have left out those four wheels, though, and maybe added a pair of feet. I like the feet sticking out of Ant Snell’s entry, and the sharp political point made by the social distance sticker on the front and the presence of former health minister Matt Hancock (if our non-UK members don’t know why he is, think yourselves lucky). Great expression on Boris, too. An ingenious “making of” image from Ben Boardman, with each character on a separate layer of acetate. What kind of camera could capture all that lot in focus, though? I like how the laptop shows the assembled view. Did you have to remove all the figures from the landscape at the bottom? It’s the Flintstones car, repurposed with the cast of the Jetsons, from tooquilos. Perhaps they like antique vehicles? Great spinning rotors in the animated version, and that’s a fine collection of futuristic backgrounds. I think it’s the expressions on the faces of Fred and Wilma in Frank's entry that really made me smile. There’s a lot of detail here: in particular, I liked the moonlight shadows and the glimpse through the open doorway. Very cute. I like how the vehicles pass behind there shadows in the animated entry, and the very cute set of emergency vehicles. Rock bottom prices! I’m sure Josephine Harvatt was pleased with that gag. A cute newspaper ad. Maybe add a coarse halftone screen over the images? Good to see GKB takes the Forum seriously enough to visit the image locations – maybe we should organise tours? I like how this week’s car is slotted into the shot. Affinity Photo does take some getting used to, but you can do good work with it. Helps if you have a (stupidly expensive) Apple Pencil. A good sense of movement in michael sinclair’s post – but why do those wheels appear to be spinning backwards? I knew you’d come up with an entry like this, Michael, but somehow I rather hoped you’d use the starting image. Yabba dabba doo! |
Posted on 10/03/23 08:21:11 AM |
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Ben Boardman
Printing Pro Posts: 601 Reply |
Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Its a real thing, ROOT 1066: THE MULTIPLANE ANIMATION CAMERA RIG Inspired by the multiplane camera designed by Lotte Reiniger in 1923.  |
Posted on 10/03/23 10:04:04 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5564 Reply |
Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Having done the lighting for a few stop frame animations in my time, I can answer Steve's question about keeping all in focus. Basically when you are shooting frame by frame on a still subject there is no restriction on exposure. You can happily expose at ten seconds per frame (or whatever) and stop right down to 22 (or more if the lens allows it) for the required depth of field. You don't even need much light to do it. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 10/03/23 10:40:48 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5564 Reply |
Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Apropos of the above I once did an animated French TV spot for a packaged chicken soup. The truly imbecilic script suggested that they raised their chickens in luxury to be happy and proud come 'soup day'. Part of this was a splendid cockerel strutting around the barnyard with each wing wrapped around a pretty and flirtatious hen! Despite this silliness, they wanted it to be as 'real' as possible. We did a casting for handsome and beautiful cockerels and hens. It was one casting where you really didn't want to get the part as the winners got sent to the taxidermist! He worked in tandem with the stop frame model animator who fitted them with adjustable steel skeletons and moveable glass eyes. Once fitted and stitched up they could be bent and manipulated into all the positions required to animate them. We built a miniature farmyard in the studio in the style of an idealised children's book illustration and rigged them into this. The skill of the animator was quite astonishing! He was to able to anthropomorphise them to a point where they conveyed really 'human' attributes. All this without the benefit of conventional animations where you can distort and adapt features, especially facial, to help give human expressions. These were still 100% chicken ..... er ... so to speak ....... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 10/03/23 10:45:00 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
With reference to Ben's multiplane camera and Steve's comment i thought I would pass on this short film. I learned about the multiplane camera over 50 years ago as I had always been fascinated by animation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw Disney used this kind of camera when making his feature length films such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty and The Jungle Book. It was incredibly expensive to use and caused quite a few financial problems for Disney. One of the reasons it was so expensive to use was the sizes of the artwork required which meant that the artists had to make animation cells much larger than they had been used to with straight 2D animation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplane_camera for more info I'll post this in another section of the forum to make it easier to find. _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 10/03/23 10:57:07 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5564 Reply |
Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
OK back to Flintstones.
They are ceramic desktop/bookshelf ornaments! There really is no accounting for taste.
Duh!! In my ignorance of all things Flintstone, I didn't realise they were foot powered though the floor! Silly, because it's so obvious once pointed out! Thanks Steve. I used the standard cartoon convention of airborne over bridges and hills, but when I took the wheels off it didn't work. It looked like a hovercraft. So I put them back. Pity I didn't realise about the feet because that would have made wheelless work perfectly. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 10/03/23 11:13:51 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 945: Pedal power
Fascinating, Gordon! Thank you. |
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