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Posted on 15/08/19 3:04:53 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3059 Reply  |
Little House of Horrors
Thanks David. I did see the film, but it wasn't my sort of thing. |
Posted on 15/08/19 5:23:25 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Loyd, you're going to give me nightmares. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 15/08/19 5:59:02 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Sorry I'm a bit late this week but I had some of those pesky humans around the house and couldn't be a busy bee until today. Original link deleted ... new link here http://vimeo.com/354834537 
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Posted on 15/08/19 6:41:00 PM |
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srawland
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Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Very funny, Gordon. Love the "lite" Jazz background music. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 15/08/19 8:48:42 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3223 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Great voice...  |
Posted on 16/08/19 02:48:50 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3059 Reply |
Who's a pretty boy then?
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Posted on 16/08/19 08:04:30 AM |
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Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Absolutely brilliant, Gordon! I was thinking along those lines, too, but in a very low key way…  |
Posted on 16/08/19 09:22:08 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Very nice! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/19 09:23:45 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
She Rat
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/19 09:25:36 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
Who's a pretty boy then?
Now that's better!! They were quite hard to get rid of at the time. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/19 09:26:59 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
That's what's so nice about it.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/19 11:44:34 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4001 Reply |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Thanks everyone. _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 20/08/19 08:43:43 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
First to battle the bugs this week was Ant Snell, with a fine battle - there’s real drama in those outsized bugs. The shocked B&Q assistant in the background is a great addition. Slightly too strong a shadow, perhaps? A plague of cockroaches from srawland, scurrying across the floor to a suitably crackly soundtrack. They look a little too big to fit under the shelving, though - simply fixed by increasing the depth of the shadow beneath the shelves, I’d have thought. A bug formed of bug spray from DavidMac, its direction suggesting it’s leaking out of the cans on the left. Scary, and inventively realised. The second entry seems to feature a swarm of bees - surely not themselves candidates for extermination? A funny bee-cup in the third entry, but I think it’s the intricacy of the fourth entry that really grabs me. Animated mayhem from lwc, with great reflections in the goggles and bloodstained floor. But it’s the green swarm at the back that I like the most, with its real sense of toxicity. Something of a green screen issue with the second entry - Defringe, perhaps, to lose the green outline? And that foreground bug would be much better located in the scene if its antennae disappeared behind some of the merchandise. A creepy third entry, although I’d have brought that spider on the left in front of the hand. And there’s a lot going on in the fourth entry - very twitchy! Perhaps the clowns make the fifth entry is the scariest of all. Oh, I spoke too soon: that giant rat in the sixth entry is absolutely terrifying. Need to defying those other rats, though! A blurry-winged wasp from michael sinclair (and he’s right, it does take a long time to load) with very twitchy legs. I don’t know much about wasps but wouldn’t they bend backwards as it’s flying? The jump in the cloud background jars; perhaps you could try a different background, such as - wild idea here - the one I supplied. A glowing web from tooquilos, with some seriously luminous bugs. Shouldn’t the man’s lighting be more from that side? Splendid intro lettering in the animated version, followed by great movement - I love it when the too-clean guy gets splatted. Splendid attic scene, and I like how the wasps burst out of the chimney - good swarm effect. An interesting 3D city at the end - did you build it? A playful grasshopper from Frank, terrorising the aisle - but as lwc says, too cute to be scary! Nicely animated, though, and well-chosen characters. After all the mayhem, a spot of serenity from Mariner: the DIY store is reimagined in a country landscape with truly organic pest control. Only the discarded trainer suggests a more sinister outcome. And a splendid (and doubtless time-consuming) clean-up of David Mac in the second entry! A can of Human-Be-Gone from GKB - the extremely shiny cap and base suggesting a spot of 3D modelling, if I’m not mistaken. Love the helium-filled voice in the animated version. The animated wasp steering the can through the aisle is fantastic, and that’s a really shocking ending! Clean up in aisle four, indeed! It’s so good I’m a little embarrassed about having to point out the shopping trolley error. I enjoyed Eva Roth’s giant mousetrap, it’s dynamic angle adding a lot of life to the scene. Simple, but very effective. |
Posted on 20/08/19 09:25:55 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4001 Reply |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Thanks Steve. I completely missed seeing the switched off mask 
updated version here: http://vimeo.com/354834537 _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 20/08/19 11:37:21 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1746 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Thanks Steve , wanted to add some special effects but ran out of time with summer activities getting priority - dread the long winters. |
Posted on 20/08/19 4:21:42 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5669 Reply |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Thanks Steve. Strangely my intention was a bug formed by thousands of tiny bugs. The community behaviour of ants was my starting thought.
You're quite right. I wanted termites but bees was all I could find. The pictures are quite real and, for someone who is fatally allergic to bee and wasp venom from a single sting, they are totally scary. But no .... as you say ....not candidates for extermination. BTW the Bee-Cup bra is also quite real. I didn't photoshop it. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/08/19 6:31:01 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3223 Reply |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Thanks Steve. I was so focused on animating each small rat individually and making sure they had shadows that I overlooked a few other details... |
Posted on 21/08/19 04:04:52 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3059 Reply |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Yes, thanks Steve. I finished this one very early and to fill in time I just couldn't resist cleaining up David's face! |
Posted on 22/08/19 11:17:51 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Thank you so much Steve. I put the city together but didn't build each structure. They came pre made. I hope your wasp problem is solved. I had some under the eaves at the front of the house..I filled a spray container with bleach and sprayed the nest. Not one wasp lived to tell the tale! Within half an hour they were all dead. _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 23/08/19 09:21:17 AM |
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Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply |
Re: Challenge 768: The death aisle
Thank you, Steve. I got inspired by the sprayers signage on the left and created a slayers aisle on the right... |
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