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Posted on 12/05/20 5:34:52 PM
Frank
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Anna - 2 cute well done entries
David Mac - a truly hungry tree ( now that's thinking outside the box) - not a tree to build a treehouse in !
Welcome back Chris- enjoy that new Mac - cute entry
Nicely done Michael
Michael Sinclair - scary looking animal - different approach for sure
Josephine - agree with Anna -" the little green sprites all around make it"


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Posted on 12/05/20 6:38:32 PM
Tom
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Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Steve Caplin wrote:
I found this curiously wounded tree in a garden recently. It's almost as if something inside the tree was trying to get out… but what? I'll leave that up to your imagination.

High res is here.





With the "eye" in the upper right this almost qualifies as pareidolia.


Posted on 12/05/20 8:04:58 PM
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Posted on 12/05/20 8:31:38 PM
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Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Tom wrote:With the "eye" in the upper right this almost qualifies as pareidolia.


Indeed. That's pretty much what triggered my image!

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Posted on 13/05/20 06:56:24 AM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Thank you Frank.

Posted on 13/05/20 10:01:18 AM
josephine harvatt
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Challenge 805: The mystery tree
DavidMac wrote:
Tom wrote:With the "eye" in the upper right this almost qualifies as pareidolia.


Indeed. That's pretty much what triggered my image!

I did a version where I swapped the crack to horizontal made the bark orange and used the wispy grass for hair. But it looked rubbish so I forgot it!



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Posted on 13/05/20 5:55:15 PM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Thank you Josephine for the idea. Poor Merlin entrapped in a tree again by a different sorceress!

Thanks to John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) for giving us the weirdest Merlin and sexiest Morgana ever to hit our screens.



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Posted on 13/05/20 8:26:50 PM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
David, that is thinking outside the box, or rather inside it. Great idea.

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Posted on 14/05/20 10:41:17 AM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
David wrote
...Poor Merlin entrapped in a tree again by a different sorceress!

Poor old Merlin.




Posted on 14/05/20 7:48:08 PM
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David, I've just seen your first entry! great work!





Posted on 15/05/20 04:25:26 AM
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Michael, that is scary.


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Posted on 15/05/20 08:23:48 AM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
First to enter the mystery tree was lwc, with a charmingly imagined critter. It’s been a while since we’ve seen an animation from you, Loyd, and I really like the subtlety of this one. The hands are the best part. And a fun second entry, with a neatly drawn quarantined squirrel.

A great expression on Ben Mills’s prisoner, clutching the bars. I like the darkened exterior; shouldn’t she have a bit more shading on the inside?

A neat imprisonment from Josephine Harvatt; colouring Merlin to match the tree was inspired, and those hovering fireflies really help. Magical.

A horrifying entry from DavidMac, realised with great style. There’s tremendous ingenuity here. Glorious. And an interesting reverse view in the second entry: excellent shading, but shouldn’t the faces mask the light beams?

An elephant half way through a tree? I’ve got to check out tooquilos's video to find out what’s happening here… great movement in the animated version, although do watch those sliding feet. Head stuck in the railings, eh? That’s really cute. I see you’re back to your usual mysticism in the second entry, with twinkly lights and magical goings-on; you just know that little girl has wings, even if they’re too small to see. Brilliant incorporation of the tree into live video in the animated version, and a really charming piece of work. Is the girl a granddaughter?

A welcome return to Born2Run, in a futuristic setting with a cross between Secret Squirrel and Inspector Clouseau. I like the glimpse of laboratory inside - although that, I think, comes from Doctor Who. All your childhood favourites crammed into one? Good to see you back, Chris.

A fun playing of scale from Mariner, with a highly toned Tarzan wielding a stick over a fearsome leopard - or, rather, a somewhat pussycat-looking leopard. Excellent shadows, Michael, and a beautiful rendition.

I rather like michael sinclair’s two framer, despite its only cursory link to the original image forming the eye and mouth. But why does the eye move relative to the tree? And I’m a little confused by how much the background shifts; I think this would be a lot stronger if the tree just rocked back and forth. An extraordinary, nightmarish second entry, with the tree truly brought to life: really horrifying, Michael. Good work.

An amazing tale from Frank, with great character motion - I like how the girl’s arm moves - and a beautifully swelling tree. Excellent sound, too, as always. What are those curious riveted hearts, though?

A neat placement of the tree split into a lumberjack image from Vibeke, with its trapped prisoner. I think the tree interior behind he should be dark rather than bright, though; otherwise this works really well. No wonder she looks nervous.


Posted on 15/05/20 08:50:05 AM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Thanks Steve.

Steve wrote
...Tarzan wielding a stick over a fearsome leopard - or, rather, a somewhat pussycat-looking leopard.


A worried leopard.



Posted on 15/05/20 10:35:59 AM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Thanks Steve, although the entire image was Doctor Who

The background is Ganymede, the inside of the tree is the TARDIS and the Squirrel is dressed as Tom Baker's Doctor

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Posted on 15/05/20 11:35:15 AM
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Thanks Steve, a lot of work in such a short animation - the hearts are expelling from his heart in a show of love and admiration, and gratitude for his freedom. I made them in PS and used the "Particle Simulator" to release them.

Posted on 15/05/20 1:56:08 PM
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Thank you Steve


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Posted on 15/05/20 9:02:06 PM
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...... but shouldn’t the faces mask the light beams?


Umm ..... No ......... ?

Given the 'spray' of beams in my image some would pass behind the heads, some would be blocked, and some would pass between them and would fall between the faces and the camera. I think this is, inasmuch as one accepts the premise, perfectly valid. (See picture)

But actually, of course, in reality, it wouldn't work like that at all! My lighting and your comment upon it are all based on a completely false premise.

We can see the sun through the hole so it is shining directly at us. Given that, to all practical intents and purposes, the sun is an infinitely distant point source, it would in fact produce one single narrow parallel beam halfway between the two faces. This would be pointing more or less directly at the lens and therefore probably be perceptible more as a flare than a coherent beam.

What I have actually done is artistic license which bears no resemblance to reality. If you choose to analyse then it is all incorrect.

I rest my case m'lud.

But glad you liked them. Doing the first nasty was a huge amount of fun!



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Posted on 15/05/20 9:02:50 PM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Oops - double post removed.


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Posted on 16/05/20 11:04:25 AM
tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Thank you all for you comments.

Glad you liked them, Steve. Thank you. The little girl is stock footage from Video Blocks.

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Posted on 17/05/20 8:04:01 PM
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Re: Challenge 805: The mystery tree
Thanks Steve! Yes, the hands was what I liked too.

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