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Posted on 06/11/19 6:45:03 PM
Frank
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Thanks Eva and Gordon -- it's coming along Gordon, slow and steady I guess - lots of tracks in this one - hard to learn when to quit though ! Could have done a lot more wth this one. When I start a project I never know where I will end up and changing course leads to lots more work - although good for the learning curve. Reasonably pleased with this one although tend to be my own worst critic.

Posted on 06/11/19 7:29:12 PM
michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Nice one Frank

I've had an emergency with one of the elderly fellow residents who became violent (Alzheimer's disease), so I have had to modify an earlier entry of some years ago javascript:emoticon('') no time!

NOTE: I have taken the brick "bewitched Coffee" structure and modified it into an earlier structure





Posted on 06/11/19 8:31:57 PM
GKB
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Frank wrote:
it's coming along Gordon, slow and steady I guess - lots of tracks in this one - hard to learn when to quit though ! Could have done a lot more wth this one. When I start a project I never know where I will end up and changing course leads to lots more work - although good for the learning curve. Reasonably pleased with this one although tend to be my own worst critic.


I think that most, if not all, on the forum can empathise with those words Frank.

Good to see that Hit Film is less of a mystery than it was just a few months ago.

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Posted on 07/11/19 00:52:11 AM
Mariner
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Posted on 07/11/19 06:40:10 AM
srawland
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
I had a little more time this week but still couldn't do everything I had wanted.

Frank - You are getting better by leaps and bounds.

Animation: http://vimeo.com/371559902



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Posted on 07/11/19 07:50:08 AM
Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Forum members from outside the UK will, thankfully, be unaware of Katie Hopkins, a professionally angry right-wing journalist who first hit the public eye in a series of The Apprentice. She’s the subject of GKB's entry, prompted by David Mac’s subsidiary challenge. Er… well, that really is something. Oh yes.

A nod to the 60s TV series from DavidMac, given a contemporary spin. An ingenious way of painting the TV promo on the cafe: the way it’s bent over the contours of the building, with distorted rippling over the brickwork, is really ingenious. And, indeed, painstakingly realised.

Outstanding sign matching from Eva Roth, with a few witches thrown in for fun - I particularly like the subtlety of the two sitting inside. You might want to have a think about your drop shadow technique, though, which has the effect of flattening the witches rather than giving them distance from the background. Manual shadows needed here! I like the lighting in the second entry, though.

Seriously scary work from Ben Mills, with some extraordinary blending of images. And that looks like a genuine “bewiched” coffee cup - well found!

It seems that tooquilos has gone all medieval on us, with a historic vision of the cafe. That broomstick is delicately balanced against the wrought iron gate, and I’m trying to work out why anyone would hang a cauldron of soup from a tiled roof. A fine automated broom in the animated version, though, and the slow track into the 3D modelled interior scene is very neatly done. Looks just like your house!

A great Harry Potter conversion from Josephine Harvatt, with a fine selection of posters pasted over the window and a rather more dated doorway. And I like the broomsticks parked outside. You need to recess that door slightly as seen from this angle, though:



A finely adjusted sign from Ant Snell, neatly done (although you might want to darken the T a little). I like all the added witchery, especially the fine cauldron. Think I might give the daily special a miss, though.

Fantastic skeletal dancing from Frank, and I really like the way the ghost flies in the new sign. Getting them all to jump through the door without opening it is a great idea, and I enjoyed all the interior goings-on. Haven’t heard that soundtrack in 40 years! And I greatly enjoyed the post-credit gag.

Mariner has come over all Michael Sinclair, ignoring the original image and brief - except for the similarity in perspective - and instead producing an admittedly rather fine Hermione Granger mixing potions. But I’m afraid you’ve committed a basic error: cylindrical shapes, such as the pillars on the balustrade, shouldn’t be sheared when they’re seen at an angle; they’ll still be cylinders, from whatever angle you view them:



A tasty ghoul from michael sinclair, complete with wizard. Not sure including a building that’s vaguely the same shape as the one I gave you really counts as being on topic but I’m feeling in a generous mood. I like the motion of the wind in the trees; a pity it stops as the ghoul comes to the foreground.

Just the hint of a ghost in the window from Sara Rawland, but it really comes alive (as it were) in the animated version. The interior is glorious, and the dancing ghost and self-pouring coffee pot are great additions, and that’s a very fine stream of coffee from the pot, too. Fantastic soundtrack, really - er - haunting.

Posted on 07/11/19 08:24:09 AM
Mariner
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Thanks Steve.

Posted on 07/11/19 08:41:27 AM
josephine harvatt
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Thank you - I knew it wasn’t quite right - I tried recessing the whole section but that looked wrong too durrr! Hope you have a lovely birthday

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Posted on 07/11/19 09:21:26 AM
GKB
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Thanks Steve.

I wasn’t going to participate in this week’s FC due lack of time but when I saw David’s mention of Ms Hopkins I had such a picture pop into my head that I just had to do it, risqué or not.

I would have refined it with a few wrinkles and lots of other additions but, as I said, no time.

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Posted on 07/11/19 10:35:34 AM
Frank
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Thanks Sara, Michael , Steve. Appreciate your comments and encouragement.


Posted on 07/11/19 5:15:14 PM
srawland
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Thank you, Steve.

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Posted on 07/11/19 6:30:23 PM
DavidMac
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Just checking in by smartphone. Thanks Steve. Moonrats will have to await my return next week.

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Posted on 08/11/19 10:05:32 AM
Eva Roth
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Re: Challenge 780: Hallowafter
Thank you for your comments, Steve. I must admit, after having done the signage I felt a bit lazy and used the drop shadow effect. Didn't look right to me either. The dark areas in the night view are hand crafted...
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