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Posted on 12/04/19 02:20:44 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3123 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thank you David, I guessed you would like it. Stop doing yourself down, you are an excellent artist. It's just that I probably have more spare time than you do. |
Posted on 12/04/19 02:42:07 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3123 Reply |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thank you Dwindt. Dennis is it? I see you joined us on 09/05/09, which makes you at least one hundred and eight years old! You are nearly as old as I am, Dennis!
That, in my humble opinion, is the right way. The longer you work on an image the better it should look, and, if it doesn't, then do that last bit again! And again. After a while you should start to feel the warm glow of job satisfaction, and finally, hopefully before close of play, you run out of things to improve on. |
Posted on 12/04/19 04:03:36 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2904 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thank you Michael, yes it is Sting. Live version of the song. I am amazed how beautiful and majestic your hydrofoil looks. Stunning work. _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 12/04/19 08:41:18 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7047 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
This week has seen much ingenuity, with a variety of imaginative and entertaining ways to avoid a painstaking rebuild of the hydrofoil. First to dive in was DavidMac, with a nicely placed For Sale sign in the window - one way of avoiding the problem. I like the drawing office in the second entry - a beautifully comped set of plans. And if you can’t rebuild it, break it off: a truly innovative approach in the third entry. A powerful animation from lwc, panning and zooming into a ghostly figure inside the craft: is it my imagination, or does the body move slightly behind the hands? Those falling leaves tie the scene together very neatly. Some excellent water, fire and smoke effects in the second entry, in which I particularly like the sparks. The angle on the fire boat is wrong, though - could have been fixed by lowering the horizon in the background image. I like how the story continues in the third entry. A good view of a model hydrofoil in the fourth entry; shame the extreme perspective doesn’t quite match that of the chest of drawers it’s sitting on. Smoke and whooshes from Frank, cleverly obscuring the base and read of the hydrofoil. It’s a striking piece of work - that’s surely Trump at the helm, but is that Putin next to him? Splendid work from Ben Mills, who not only found another photo from almost exactly the same angle, but inserted it into the Oxford and Cambridge boat race which took place last weekend. Topical stuff, Ben. GKB bursts into flames, with fire all around. Just thinking about the flames on the left… shouldn’t they be coming out of broken windows? An entire space epic in the animated version - that spinning X Wing is ingenious. I’m sure Wagner would have approved of the use of his soundtrack. An underwater entry from tooquilos, with the hydrofoil sunk to the sea bed. And a very nice fit it is, too. High drama in the animated version, with an entertaining crash into an iceberg and a pleasingly vintage radar. The diver’s light is a good addition, but I wonder if he’s just a little too fuzzy. I do like the interior scene with its floating jellyfish, and the stirring Soviet music. I like how michael sinclair brings the craft back to life, with a rather beautiful scale model. Well composed on that Russian river background; my only query would be whether a boat could travel that fast on a river without being parallel to the bank. A complete rebuild from Mariner, taking the hydrofoil into space (where it surely belongs) and inserting ET at the helm. An extraordinary, painstaking piece of work, capturing the essence of the original beautifully. The only thing that bothers me slightly is the angle of those window bars; but it would be a real headache to put them right. I laughed at Ant Snell’s entry, with the hydrofoil being pressed into service at Ryanair, brilliantly matched to the hovercraft base. A weird sign, though: how can we be looking straight at the pole when we’re looking down on the rest of the scene? Oh, and it’s Isle of Wight. Easily fixed… 
An astonishing restoration-in-progress from dwindt, with the boat in dry dock and an army of engineers and decorators working on it. This really is a hugely impressive entry, packed full of so much detail I could stare at it for hours. Tremendous work, Dennis. As Michael Sinclair says: it’s the gold star for you. |
Posted on 12/04/19 08:46:13 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3123 Reply |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thanks Anna. |
Posted on 12/04/19 08:51:12 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thanks Steve. A potentially difficult subject this week with excellent solutions from everyone. _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 12/04/19 08:51:43 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3123 Reply |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thanks Steve for your generous critique. Yes, those bars were a very difficult problem which I couldn't solve. And there I was thinking I was perfect! 
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Posted on 12/04/19 09:20:00 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5776 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thanks Steve. it was fun trying to work out how to stay vaguely on topic while avoiding the challenge. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/04/19 12:12:14 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 948 Reply |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thanks for the lovely comments everybody. 09/05/09...wow, that long ago. I do tend to hide in the background. Circumstances have afforded me a little spare time these past 2 weeks so I have had a lot of time to tinker with art. I am reluctant to look at the new challenge though. ( like a carrot before a donkey ) as I would like to get back to modelling the steam drill...and next week it's back to the grindstone. Have a good week everyone. _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 12/04/19 12:24:19 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 948 Reply |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thank you Steve! _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 12/04/19 12:50:39 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
There is a slightly pronounced bump in the transition between the 25th & 26th frames that could give that impression, however, I did nothing on purpose to create such an illusion. Thanks! |
Posted on 13/04/19 4:22:41 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1769 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thanks Steve, yes that's Putin beside him and rather hard to see in the upper compartment is Kim Jong-un. |
Posted on 16/04/19 09:35:02 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2904 Reply |
Re: Challenge 750: Float my boat
Thank you Steve  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
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