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Posted on 11/11/09 9:06:28 PM |
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Mark Goodwin
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Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
 Well... I did have a go at the Canon shooting the wax thing. And I started the Lego, and now I can't find it... (No.. Honest...I promise). I am still looking for it.
I can't start it again, I'm too old, what I mean is that if I did start it again I would be dead from old age by the time I finished it!  So if I can find it and finish I will post.
Cheers  _________________ Mark Goodwin If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always got! |
Posted on 12/11/09 00:18:25 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Sorry, a bad week here for me. Excuse, something different ... but even then the PC could not cope tuning some parts.... Later, fixed a couple in next contribution... |
Posted on 12/11/09 00:33:29 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Fixed a couple  .... (?)
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Posted on 12/11/09 03:05:09 AM |
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nerdtron
Neutron Neth Posts: 76 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Lots of great works so far. So here is mine. It really drove me crazy when lots of layers stack at each other...Oh I think I'm getting a little dizzy....Brain Blast!!!!!  _________________ left-brain invention! |
Posted on 12/11/09 03:16:12 AM |
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drlasher
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Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
I couldn't keep them straight. I got lazy and started merging layers. |
Posted on 12/11/09 07:52:16 AM |
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Mark Goodwin
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Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
@Trevor. Brilliant work Trevor, I love this. Regards _________________ Mark Goodwin If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always got! |
Posted on 12/11/09 11:07:44 AM |
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Brian Ruddock
Detail Devil Posts: 31 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
I really must buy a graphics tablet! I would welcome suggestions of suitable models by e mail. |
Posted on 12/11/09 3:56:07 PM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Rien à faire, je n'y suis pas arrivée, cette fois ci! Vous êtes tous des Jedi! ^^ _________________ Mais je me connais, je lâcherais pas l'affaire.... Je vais piquer de grève comme on pique une colère... Plus têtue que tous les vieil homme et la mer... Pour que continue le combat ordinaire! |
Posted on 12/11/09 8:16:17 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Try the Wacom Bamboo - I don't have it but I've head nothing but good things about it 
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Posted on 12/11/09 9:46:12 PM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Quite glad I was to busy again this week. I wouldn't know how to even begin on this one. Hearty congratulations to you all. You are true p'shoppers par excellance! Love the banner, James. |
Posted on 12/11/09 9:50:49 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Neth, Ben, I managed to get 160+ layers once!! For last contribution, started merging and replicating and replicating i.e. what a PC/PS can do efficiently, and while doing same. PS filter, blending, masking etc stuff as well. Less painful. Thanks Mark. Not sure it is any good or on brief. Its okay for me though 
Sorry some could not make this week's FC. So offer this earlier rejected attemp, now with this discussion and image in context of dialogue now below
Reporter: "So how did the Lego challenge go?" Boxer: "Fine" R: "A life change??" B: "No why? Lego of that. I'm fine!" R: "Are you sure???? .... " Its very so... so.. off brief, ignore, maybe a bit Bacon-esk(?)  |
Posted on 12/11/09 10:34:54 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
 _________________ For me the creative process is more one of discovery than creation. - James Lee Burke |
Posted on 12/11/09 11:45:02 PM |
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Mark Goodwin
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Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
@Brian Brian I use the Wacom CTE 640, I have a pen and I also use a Wacom mouse with it, sometimes I find using the mouse with the right-button clicks easier, but the pen is great for selection and fine work. The size is about A5 and if my memory serves me right I paid under £150 for it about 18 months ago. I use it with a Mac but I'm sure it'll work with either Mac or PC without and bother. Hope this helps. _________________ Mark Goodwin If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always got! |
Posted on 12/11/09 11:47:39 PM |
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Brian Ruddock
Detail Devil Posts: 31 Reply |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
I really must buy a graphics tablet! I would welcome suggestions of suitable models by e mail.  |
Posted on 12/11/09 11:56:14 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Brian, Sample this thread too http://www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com/cgi-bin/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=01&topic_id=1250623167 Trevor |
Posted on 13/11/09 00:01:07 AM |
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Brian Ruddock
Detail Devil Posts: 31 Reply |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Jota120, Thanks for the link! Thanks for the replies, everyone. I'll write to Santa Claus by return. |
Posted on 13/11/09 03:16:22 AM |
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Luis
Six-String Synthesist Posts: 236 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
I hope you all don't mind if I post my final picture of my lego race car. I think all the parts are there. It took me about a week to complete this. Again, all of this was created from scratch. 
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Posted on 13/11/09 06:10:16 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Hey Luis, it is very nice work, I really like it. _________________ The most beatiful thing we can experience is mysterious. It is the source of all true art and sience. - Albert Einstein |
Posted on 13/11/09 07:08:14 AM |
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powerslave
Custom Cobber Posts: 136 Reply |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
Thats awesome Luis, looks like a Williams. Your very talented dood
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Posted on 13/11/09 08:24:18 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7047 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 274: Building bricks
I think all of you found this an interesting Challenge - if one that was perhaps rather fiddly and even frustrating at times. What surprises me about this technique is how similar it is to building with real Lego bricks - except that we never run out of red ones. First to play with the bricks was Jeepy, with a clever take on the recent St Martin's Challenge. I like the recolouring of the church, and the way brick-shaped chunks have been cut out of it - and, of course, the flying Lego blocks zooming towards us. I like the Escher-inspired second entry - and that's a really cute selection of marching aliens! Where did you get them? A traditional Aztec temple design from Jota120, clearly getting a feel for the assembly process. A very nice take on last week's Challenge in the second entry - a clever and intricate construction, Trevor. Nice work. A bizarre and somewhat disturbing third entry: that girl is scary! And I don't know what was going through your mind with the fourth entry... If you thought creating static images was tricky, that's nothing compared to tooquilos' animated version - what a huge amount of work has gone into this! And I love the disembodied hand. Makes me wish I'd written a book with a much shorter title! Beautiful work from Jonvee Leo, recreating the Bridge Challenge from a few weeks ago. It's a really clever construction, using coloured bricks and even gold cylinders perfectly. And it almost works when it's placed in the original image in the second entry - but I think this is a perspective challenge too far! The first entry is certainly good enough to earn you a title, though - and I think Construction Chief sums up your work this week. Excellent! Good to see the impossible cube surface in maiden's entry. I've seen this built out of many materials, but never Lego! A great idea, and a nice execution. I've been puzzling over brewell's entry, and have come to the conclusion that it's an immaculate reproduction of a Lego cowpat. Detailed work, Bruce - getting the symmetry right on all the sides must have been a logistical nightmare! An ingenious Acropolis from Nick Curtain - the sloping roof is particularly well achieved, and I like the way the base merges into the sand. Very restrained, very accurate. Now let's see it after the Goths have had their fun with it... A very interesting approach from Luis, who has drawn all his Lego blocks from scratch (as Luis tends to do). Excellent attention to the highlit edges and sloping sides: a really novel method. Luis, can I ask: did you build the car out of real Lego first? The final version in the second entry is outstanding! A great cheat from Ben Mills - with Bob the Builder walling himself in. The brick he's holding is just fine, Ben, but that wall's never going to stick together if he files the bumps down. Our first new member this week is drlasher, with a clever entry mixing a Lego model with a real landscape. That's one way to make the isometric perspective work! I like the added highlights on the lamps, and the windscreen is well drawn: an excellent shadow, as well. Welcome to the forum, Ben. A second new member this week - and an inspired entry from yacine, a topical reference to the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Excellent Lego building, with a very good selection of broken bricks - and the graffiti creates the context perfectly. Fantastic work - welcome to the forum! It must have taken real determination for Deborah Morley to recreate an iMac in Lego - and it's an immaculate, painstaking and detailed job. She's even got the varying width of the Enter and other command keys right - amazing! Deborah, if you never want to touch Lego again, I understand! I was very touched by Paul 2007's idea of running out of bricks of the right colour - it brought back many memories of just that happening when I used to play with Lego. And his entry is precisely the sort of model I, and many other children, used to make. I love the detail of the limitations of Lego, that always used to frustrate - such as the fact that the bricks on top of the gateway pillars can't be placed dead centre. A realistic, intricate and thoroughly appealing construction, Paul, that brings back many nostalgic memories. And it's certainly more than enough to earn you a well overdue title - I can't believe you don't have one already. Has to be Lego Legend, really. Nice work from nerdtron, building the HoTChiPs letters in a variety of colours. Good construction, Neth, but - lilac Lego? Turquoise Lego? The world isn't ready for such radical concepts! A classic, restrained model from Emil - I like the road markings, and you've found a good set of wheels there. What this car really needs, of course, is a shadow, to stop it floating aboce the road surface. A brave and valiant attempt at adding true perspective to the scene from Brian Ruddock (and it's good to see you back, Brian). Building in this kind of perspective afterwards is a hugely difficult task, and this very nearly works - congratulations for trying! Terrific work this week. Bet you're all glad it's over. |
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