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Posted on 05/11/09 10:35:42 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Exusez moi, an horrible mistake était dans l'image! ^^  _________________ 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 05/11/09 10:49:43 AM |
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Jeepy
Modeleur Mystique Posts: 174 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Mais où trouves tu ces éléments que tu assembles dans tes montages ? J'aime vraiment trop tes images.  |
Posted on 05/11/09 11:11:02 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Merci Jeepy! La plupart de mes images viennent soit de Devian art, que je remercie d'exister, soit de http://www.sxc.hu Voilà, j'espère que tu y trouveras ton bonheur! _________________ 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 05/11/09 12:48:15 PM |
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Jeepy
Modeleur Mystique Posts: 174 Reply |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Merci à toi pour ta réponse.  |
Posted on 05/11/09 2:32:03 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
laddition, Apprécier vos images et others' créateurs  . Vous ne vous donnez pas la justice et n'êtes pas non plus une critique trop dure sur vous-même. Nous sommes tous différents niveaux et différentes qualifications avec la picoseconde, l'art etc. L'élément principal est d'apprécier le défi, l'étude et la rétroaction, particulièrement de Steve. (Excuses pour mon pauvre Français.  Espoir vous comprenez mon essentiel).
Laisse le regard en avant contester après ! P) Looking forward to next challenge and enjoying all the creative varied responses and PS great works. Trevor |
Posted on 05/11/09 3:35:58 PM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thank you very much! I've understood what you mean! ^^ _________________ 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 05/11/09 11:15:48 PM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Wonderful display of imagination and interpretation as always everyone. Thoroughly enjoyed. The French isn't bad either.
My eyes are closing so no hope of participating this week -> next week maybe. |
Posted on 06/11/09 04:01:57 AM |
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bjansen
Satire Surgeon Posts: 32 Reply  |
Challenge 273: Halloween!
Sorry for my very late (and slightly gory) Halloween submission...have a great week everyone!  |
Posted on 06/11/09 08:20:44 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7047 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Say what you like about Halloween - sending children out at night to demand money with menaces, celebrating the occult, wasting a huge quantity of otherwise edible pumpkins - it does certainly bring out the weirdness in people. And we've had some truly bizarre entries this week. Spooky! Good to see Eggbox back, with a rather splendid pumpkin balloon - albeit one that looks so deflated it's about to plummet. Interesting reflection: but don't you think those ripples are just too big, given the tightness of the water surface? Expert carving from jwhite, with a beautifully created view of the pumpkin flesh beneath the surface. Terrific shading! If only the snake cast a faint shadow on the outside, this would be perfect. Good to see you posting again, John! I was hugely entertained by maiden's striking Alien egg - the way the creature leaps out at us is horrifying! I really like the blur at the end. Clever work, Becky. The pumpkin heads in brewell's entry are surreal in themselves, of course, but it's the subtle blending of human limbs into the turkey that makes this image so striking. Disturbing stuff, Bruce - but nicely achieved. A rare entry from Jeepy, with a very human pumpkin - great lettering! A very strong poster. Looks like tooquilos has got hold of some new 3D figure modelling software - how are you moving that body around? I'm also intrigued about how the moth movements work here. I've been using a PC program called CrazyTalk to do this, and I'm interested in alternative approaches! A dose of Puccini is always welcome first thing in the morning. Some nicely lit pumpkins from Jonvee Leo, nestling amongst the gravestones. It's a good effect, but you need to be careful with perspective: the rear stones are enormous compared to the pumpkins next to them. In a scene like this, where you're creating perspective entirely with your placed images, it's very important to get the relative sizes right. A fantastic sepia image from laddition - and as always with Véronique's work, there's the sense of it being a single scene in the middle of a much longer story. Setting the action in a pumpkin patch was a great idea! The story continues in the second entry - very atmospheric, very emotional. A terrific expression on Nick Curtain's pumpkin - and that's some intricate carving on the mouth! But pumpkins are more translucent than that, Nick: it should be illuminated by the candlelight, rather than in its shadow. High art surrealism from Jota120, with a rather forlorn-looking pumpkin being booted around by a couple of small children. There's a David Lynch quality to this image - and I particularly like the mechanical doll. ANd a great application of texture in the second entry - the eyes are perhaps a step too far, though. What's all the red stuff in the third entry? A pumpkin in mid-carve from Willo - great shadow of the knife on the edge of the pumpkin. But pumpkins have a thicker skin than that: we should be able to see some of the flesh wall through the holes. Good to see you posting again. A truly hilarious pumpkin from Neil O - I laughed out loud at this one. Absolutely beautiful work, Neil! It has that Monsters Inc cartoon quality to it. Brilliant! Seriously clever stuff from katew, both in inspiration and in execution. Her jailed pumpkin is a tremendous and lifelike achievement: if I didn't know better I'd thin you actually carved this. In fact, the closer I look, the more I can't believe this is all Photoshop... tell us your secret, Kate! A clever pair of cats from LonnieK , one real and one carved. A fantastic pumpkin interior, with a great candle setting: and I really like the lighting on the side of the cat. Very good work! I'm not at all sure about the fairy in the second entry, though: the combination of childlike face and exaggerated womanly form are straying into dangerous territory, I feel. There's a rather lascivious grin on the face of Ben Mills's pumpkin - and a rather cheeky image altogether. Good carving, and the clever use of depth of field does pull the focus neatly to the girl in the background. A host of Halloween references from GKB - love the eyes in the skeleton! Interesting lit-up lettering on the table, which appears to be casting its own shadow, which itself is interestingly made of light. Hmm. Small technical point: when you distort using Free Transform, it automatically applies a perspective effect to the object - which is why, although the first H and last P in the reflection are aligned with the original, the other characters now aren't. The solution would be to use Image Warp instead, which doesn't produce this unwanted perspective skewing. A truly scary image from michael sinclair - you've no idea how bizarre it is to see myself animated and staring back at me! Solidly on-topic for two weeks in a row, Michael - this must be a record! A very clever piece of work. And I like the menace in the second entry, particularly the crow in the foreground. And, er, is that your favourite cornfield again? Parts of BigVern's illuminated pumpkin are taken from tips in my recent webinar, he says - but the quality of the light coming out of this pumpkin is far in excess of anything I was able to knock together on the night. A really beautiful entry, with excellent lighting. Great job! And I like the animation in the second entry - but maybe lose the very blurred frame. This kind of effect works much better when it's subtle. A stark, surreal and impressive image from Luka. I like the way the hand blends into the tree roots, but be careful of the lighting: the shadows on the roots are on the right, but the shadow on the hand is on the left. Flipping the hand horizontally would have solved this! Glorious, touching and immaculate work from Neal. It's a beautiful and seamless job - there's something really touching about this one. Amazing how you've managed to get such a sense of age and expression from so few components. Excellent work! Very fine work from gaoxiguo, with a skeleton falling out of the pumpkin flower into a silver hand. A great idea, perfectly created: fantastic! We haven't seen bjansen here for a while - but what a striking image this is! I'm assuming that's tomato sauce, Ben. A nicely shaded inner wall, and a great expression! Tremendous imagination all round this week. What a high standard of work! |
Posted on 06/11/09 08:30:37 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thank you very much, Steve! _________________ 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 06/11/09 08:31:32 AM |
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Luka
Skilful Snowman Posts: 94 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thanx Steve |
Posted on 06/11/09 08:38:05 AM |
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Jeepy
Modeleur Mystique Posts: 174 Reply |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thank you Steve !!! |
Posted on 06/11/09 10:06:01 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
I was hoping you wouldn't notice that one but glad you did as I was too busy to work out how to solve the problem. Some really nice work from everyone again. Gordon _________________ Why is there only one word for ‘Thesaurus’? |
Posted on 06/11/09 10:11:06 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2904 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thank you for that Steve! I used AE to animate Jacks body – the Puppet Pin tool. Import the audio into AE Place the puppet pins in the bits of the image you want to move Ctl and Left click with your mouse (I have a PC – may be different on a Mac) Select a puppet pin you wish to move – and move it to the rhythm of the music/beat etc. Below is a link to tutorial that I have used by John Dickinson that will explain things better than I have. http://www.motionworks.com.au/2009/02/the-dancing-can-part-1/ With Jack’s Head I used Crazy Talk 5.1. I have V6 also but don’t like that as much as the earlier one. I find CT a very simple but effective program and use it often with various projects. A project that Im working on at the moment – a story for young children – just a small example of it http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa164/tooquilos/?action=view¤t=longdogpt3.flv Its still in the draft stages..but it gives you an idea of the power of this little program. In the next example..I was trying to synchronise the words and facial expressions to match. It could probably do with a bit of fine tuning…but again demonstrates the strength and capacity in CT. http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa164/tooquilos/?action=view¤t=final.flv I find using animals or cartoons a lot more convincing than actual photographs of people. Ive yet to successfully produce a realistic version of a person talking with CT. _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 06/11/09 1:18:11 PM |
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Neil O
Cartoon Contractor Posts: 389 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thanks Steve! It was a fun one to do! And a bunch of great images this week! Loved it! _________________ "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward".... Thomas Edison |
Posted on 06/11/09 1:40:20 PM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thanks Steve Not one of my better efforts. Nick |
Posted on 06/11/09 1:51:55 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 681 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thanks Steve. Now, before I confess ... this is 'how to CHEAT in Photoshop', right? I found the picture below on google pics. From there, it was a matter of grafting it onto your pumpkin, adding a background and changing the light. The blending was the hardest bit, making the found pumpkin match the original.  |
Posted on 06/11/09 2:34:54 PM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7047 Reply |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Phew! I was beginning to think it was time to hang up my tablet! |
Posted on 06/11/09 9:05:14 PM |
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BigVern
Q Quipper Posts: 674 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thank you Steve for your very pleasing critique of my still image. I was trying to make the animation look a bit more mysterious by adding some mist effect but I agree it just made it look like it had a fuzzy frame. Vern |
Posted on 06/11/09 9:41:35 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 273: Halloween!
Thanks again Steve. The reds are the poppies in the distance. I guess not clear. Its implied if just ~3 in front millions in the distance. Interesting the reference to David Lynch. Not so familiar/concious on my part. After your comment I referenced and guess see something...... (discuss next time we have chance to meet(?)) Great inspired entries from all
Trevor |
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