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Posted on 28/07/06 03:10:08 AM |
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Pierre
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Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Char! I don't see your image! ¿Dónde está su imagen?   _________________ |
Posted on 28/07/06 04:02:53 AM |
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Pierre
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Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
When I finished the book, I received this a couple of weeks later. Any of you got that ?!? 
PS: I love this "Friday Challenge" stuff... _________________ |
Posted on 28/07/06 08:56:47 AM |
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char
Collage Conquistador Posts: 141 Reply  |
Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Pierre, I see it either! , Raffy if? , I will try it again!  |
Posted on 28/07/06 09:18:38 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Some very tasty entries this week! And a pervasive obsession with the darker side of chocolate eating. Interesting. Do electric rabbits lay Maltesers? Tank172's entry sounds more like the title of a Philip K Dick novel than aqnything else. A good gag, and a good simple image - but doesn't the box deserve a shadow as well? A splendid piece of trickery from David Urquhart (I have to check each time I type that - there can't be too many names with rquh in the middle). A fabulous golden ticket, and a great Willy Wonka silhouette on the lid - with a well realised stream of surrounding stars. The box has been emptied with great style, and the dirtying of the inside really helps the realism of the box. Good stuff! We haven't had many entries from Keiko, but already we can see she has an eye for detail and a taste for pictures within pictures. Not just a perfectly rendered billboard, but the chocolate box has been turned into a GameBoy - complete with SuperMario on the screen. A great idea, and extremely well created! A great idea from Paul2812 - turning those chocks into Turkish Delight. Very well accomplished, I especially like the shine on them - and the gold box works perfectly. The only thing that bothers me slightly is the way the box relates to the background. Since it's clearly not sitting on the sand, I'd be tempted to add an outer glow to it, or some such device to make it clear this is a montage. Does that make sense? Wonderful work from Vibeke, with a grand daughter who's tasted almost every chocolate in the box, and xstarted on the packaging. Some really good soft centres in there, and I really like the way you've removed a few chocolates from the tray and rebuilt the tray behind. Excellent! Another grandchild, this time from mguyer - with a tasty chocolate smear on his shirt and face, and a very precariously box on his knee. My first chocolates? Somehow I don't think so! Love the second entry, though! A truly intriguing entry from james, with a mouth-watering array of new chocs (and he's used just about every filter going - a;though I think I'd break my teeth on the stained glass one). Having some trouble interpreting the reflection, though: what is it resting on? Why are the chocs flying out of the box in the reflected version? Is this a coded reference to an old Twilight Zone episode? A cute entry from Dave, showing how Charlie became Chubby. And good to see Hugh Jass making a guest appearance as producer! Personally, I found Gene Wilder a far more convincing Wonka than Johnny Depp, though. Chocolate sprinkles, eh? Steve Mac's glorious entry has some wonderfully melted chocs, and a truly revolting array of ants. A good grass effect, and a very convincing piece altogether! Wildlife pests crop up again in Michael Sinclair's post, making a frenzied attack on the chocolate box. The rats in the foreground work especially well, but those coming in from the top seem to be rather too much of a chorus line. And aren't those cans a little small for the rest of the scene? But an excellent follow-up in the second entry - neat work! From Badburys to Sladburys... Deborah Morley's underwater entry has some very tasty fish among the chocs, and a convincing set of bubbles. The front edge of the box does appear to be poking out of the glass, though: I'd like to have seen some pebbles in front here as well, to place it more effectively within the scene. The most disgusting entry this week has to be Neal's, with an infestation of cockroaches and other crawling nasties. Beautiful work, if you can bear to look at it! And haven't we seen that tablecloth a couple of weeks ago? Raffy's cat certainly does seem to have unusual taste in sweeties. Cars and ladybirds - an interesting diet! And a truly scary Goya cat to surmount the whole thing! A bit of technical genius from Wayne, whose disassembly of teh original box is a masterful piece of work. Look at all that detail: the lifted tray, the removed chocs, the two translucent corrugated sheets, and the half-eaten chocolate in the foreground - wonderful! What a great piece of work! Good to see BobbyJo back, with an assortment of chocolates from all nations. This must have taken some time to put together! A great foil effect, too. Classic! A fantastic crime scene from eyal fitoussi. This one's got everything - money, gambling, weaponry, a corpse and a fine sense of mystery. Hmm, let me see - that gun's too far from the body to make this a suicide. I suspect foul play! Well, we might have expected minis from Pierre - but these are so beautifully, mouthwateringly rendered that we can forgive him for this further indication of his troubling obsession. Great work, even if you don't spell "sumptuous" like that. And i absolutely love the second entry, even if for me it does smack of autocannibalism! There's a 3D feel to those heads that's astonishingly good! Another rodent-inspired entry, this time from jwhite - the difference being, of course, that his passion for snakes probably means that he finds this box more tempting than the rest of us! I'd have flipped a couple of those mice to avoid the step-and-repeat feel, though. And if you'd rasterized the Snake Snacks text on the front of the box, you'd have been able to distort it to fit the angles of the box more effectively! A lovingly hand drawn shop window from salfordnurse, with a great reflection in the glass. The angle of the choc boxes isn't quite right for the head-on view of the window, though: we're looking down on them too much. Rather than try to distort the boxes, it would be a fairly simple matter to distort the rest of the scene to match. Self slimming chocolates, eh? Now there's an idea that would really take off! Char's fantastic entry has body parts beautifully recreated in chocolate, and a fine pair of models to show the before and after states. Great work, Char! Great stuff all round, this week. Well done! |
Posted on 28/07/06 12:31:18 PM |
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raffy
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Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks,Steve!Yes,he's really into "crunchies" this week!And couldn't resist the beetle/beatles pun thing. _________________ Dogs have masters;Cats have staff. |
Posted on 28/07/06 2:37:28 PM |
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Pierre
Constructional Confabulator Posts: 637 Reply |
Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks Steve! I will be more carefol with my spelling!  _________________ |
Posted on 28/07/06 4:22:29 PM |
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Dave
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Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Steve, Thanks for noticing my Hugh Jass. |
Posted on 28/07/06 6:03:06 PM |
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Wayne
Printer’s Devil Posts: 312 Reply  |
Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks Steve. Pierre, well done for remembering to put a flap on the lid! |
Posted on 28/07/06 8:23:10 PM |
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Paul2812
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Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks for your comments. I originally played around with filters. I agree with what you are saying its just that I have a lot to learn regarding CS2. I have ideas but dont have the abilitys yet. But loving the challenge. |
Posted on 28/07/06 8:34:35 PM |
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Steve Mac
Grunge Genie Posts: 539 Reply  |
Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks Steve. I tried to change the chocolates to something else but I couldn't seem to get it to look like chocolate convincingly. My hat is off to Pierre for pulling it off! _________________ Steve Mac |
Posted on 28/07/06 9:12:11 PM |
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Pierre
Constructional Confabulator Posts: 637 Reply |
Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks Wayne, your tray is impressive! And Steve Mac, is that your mom on the lid? I like your ideas! Thanks guys!  _________________ |
Posted on 28/07/06 9:36:31 PM |
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char
Collage Conquistador Posts: 141 Reply |
Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks Steve. Nestle already has been interested in the formula…  |
Posted on 29/07/06 05:07:29 AM |
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Keiko
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Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Thanks for your comments, Steve! And I love your book 
Pierre, I was wondering, how did you make the Steve-choccies look 3D? |
Posted on 30/07/06 06:04:16 AM |
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Pierre
Constructional Confabulator Posts: 637 Reply |
Re: Contest 106: Chocolate heaven
Ijust played with the Free Transkorm tool. The key was to create a "nose" independant from the rest to make it 3D by itself. I also painted some shadows and highlites. _________________ |
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