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Posted on 28/06/23 08:43:01 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Interesting Dennis. I knew of some that and some I had sort of guessed. Some the more specialised spreaders you mention can be seen on Hyster’s site. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/06/23 08:55:00 AM |
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dwindt
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
We've even got a Ferrari reach stacker...lol. The gantry crane as well as the straddle carrier use an almost identical spreader to pick up loads. _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 28/06/23 10:04:54 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3217 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Reassembled on Mars and used to position housing pods, the Hyster can also be used to fend off pesky mutant ants at the red planet colony...  |
Posted on 28/06/23 4:37:33 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Loyd HaHaHaaa! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/06/23 4:40:37 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Took me a ton of web research to find it ..... but I guess this must be it .......  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/06/23 11:21:40 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Thanks Loyd. I like your racing cars 
David I'm indebted to you again for making a suggestion that has improved my entry (SEE MY REVISED ENTRY). I like both your entries (the convincing toy, and the the well-polished version of the Ferrari). |
Posted on 29/06/23 05:40:17 AM |
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dwindt
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Lovely David. If our reach stacker looked like that, it would never be in the terminal. 
_________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 29/06/23 10:12:14 AM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
In answer to your question Michael here is one real grandson with his 'big truck'. There is a small story attached to this. My father was a very introverted man who was often unable to express his feelings. He adored his first grandson, my son Ken, and made this truck for him when he was small. You can see the year on the number plate. He was not a hobbyist or carpenter. He had no workshop. He made this in his late seventies with basic hand tools on the kitchen table. It was his way of expressing his love. Little could he have imagined that his grandson would keep and treasure it so that one day it would become the plaything of his great grandson! Sorry to drift of topic but I can be a bit of a sentimental old fool when it comes to things like this .........  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/06/23 3:42:56 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3054 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
David, thank you for sharing this memory with us. |
Posted on 29/06/23 4:02:33 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 29/06/23 9:10:09 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply |
Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Ben you really manage to fill your images with so much going on! Many layered references to automation and industrialisation here. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/06/23 11:05:26 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Ben you really manage to fill your images with so much going on! Many layered references to automation and industrialisation here. Thank you David. I enjoyed the story about your grandsons truck. Your work continues to inspire me. |
Posted on 30/06/23 05:57:31 AM |
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Mariner
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Posted on 30/06/23 07:47:39 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
First to operate the stacker this week was DavidMac, with a brilliant piece of satire – Two blond bimbos artfully arranged, the clincher being the renaming of the Hyster. And there’s even reflection of clouds on the glass! “Wish I hadn’t started,” you say of the shipping container image. But it’s a lovely piece of work, with great attention to detail: the Tonka rebranding, the rippled Shipping lettering, and of course the reflections. Worth the effort. You’re absolutely right about the extension version: the higher it goes, the more we’re looking up at the grabber. Immaculately done, and good job patching the sky. The container is a good way to avoid having to extend the background. The Ferrari image is fabulous, and a great choice of background. Looks like you enjoyed this one. A very well constructed image from Frank, with three appropriate grips holding the giant book. It’s the shadows that really make this, both on the book and on the ground beneath it. And is that woman now taking a selfie? Racing time for lwc, with multicoloured Hysters powering through the desert. The independent movement is the key here, with the green one sometimes nudging forward a little. Excellent, Loyd. Love the dust. I like the extending arm image, with its subtly eased in and out motion; it makes it very naturalistic. I like the face-off in the junkyard entry, although the sudden jerking up and down of the arm is a little disconcerting. Much more convincing movement in the Mars entry, where it seems to be keeping those pesky Martian ants at bay. I really like this image: the arm movement, with the expanding hydraulics, is especially good. Putting the clocks back! A touch of inspiration from Josephine Harvatt, and a really funny image. I really enjoyed this one. A skipful of tyrants from GKB, each appropriately consigned to the dustbin of history. Interesting to see you’ve got Yevgeny Prigozhin in there, very topical. A child’s toy from Ant Snell, the boy’s hand tying the two elements neatly together. There is a perspective issue, of course; we’re looking up at the truck’s grabber, but down on the floor. I like the reflection. I like how michael sinclair has turned the grabber into a luxury car – although more Hummer than Lamborghini. Nicely done, and I especially like how the driver jiggles at a different rate to the car. Not sure about the square shadow, though. Party time for Mariner, who has taken the Open Day theme literally. There’s a lot going on here: not only the added crowd, but moving the Hyster to the back, which has involved rebuilding the truck and building in front of it. And extending the VTG truck by just enough to show that you’ve done it. But where’s the food? The French can’t hold a car boot sale without somewhere to have a three course meal. The move to the quayside in the second entry is expertly achieved, not least because you’ve had to flip all the text. Putting the pointing man in its shadow adds a lot to the realism. A fine junkyard from Ben Boardman, with Wall-E and another floating robot I don’t recognise. The added seagulls set the scene well, and I’m glad you retained the cameraphone family from the original image. The only thing that bothers me is the different in colour between the junk on the Hyster and the junk in the wall. Thanks to Dwindt for the detailed explanation of how Hysters work! |
Posted on 30/06/23 08:18:28 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Wall-E and another floating robot I don’t recognise The film follows a solitary robot named WALL-E on a future, uninhabitable, deserted Earth in 2805, left to clean up garbage. He is visited by a robot called EVE sent from the starship Axiom, with whom he falls in love and pursues across the galaxy. |
Posted on 30/06/23 09:01:18 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Sorry, Steve. I don't know France at all well. Next time there will be frogs' legs and snails! |
Posted on 30/06/23 11:09:26 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3217 Reply |
Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
I agree, it's a bit of a glaring bump in the animation... extending and retracting the boom was pretty straight-forward, adding the lowering and raising of the boom wasn't too difficult, but as the boom lowers to it's lowest position gravity takes over and the spreader moves away from the boom arm. Adding this third movement to the overall animation proved to be quite challenging in itself. The timing for each of these individual movements to happen at the proper time proved to be more work than I was willing to put into it. So, what you see is what you get. 
The 'fending off' of the ants was the most fun to make, thanks Steve. |
Posted on 30/06/23 12:27:52 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Ben Boardman The only thing that bothers me is the different in colour between the junk on the Hyster and the junk in the wall. Thank you Steve. Something was bothering me about the Hyster junk but I couldn't decide what it was - I thought at first contrast. I just colour matched to the wall junk , looks so much better. |
Posted on 30/06/23 1:06:01 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5666 Reply |
Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Thanks Steve. In the end, although it was sometimes a bit laborious, I did enjoy this one. But the real fun was when Dennis mentioned Ferrari reach loaders ..... I simply couldn't resist that! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/06/23 4:11:56 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 961: Getting Hysterical
Thanks Steve, apparently so. |
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