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Posted on 01/12/21 11:50:43 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Thanks everyone. I had a lot of fun with this one although there were times when I hadn’t a clue where, exactly, it was taking me. Terrific work from everybody again this week. I always like to see how a simple image can induce so many different visions in people. Michael I love the Dinky Toy - excellent lighting. _________________  |
Posted on 01/12/21 12:20:47 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2817 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Thanks Gordon. The lighting is always a fun part of any challenge. |
Posted on 01/12/21 12:24:41 PM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Thanks Frank. Well, it was an actual box for a Volvo 122S but I found a clip art picture just like the Nissan and merged it in. |
Posted on 01/12/21 8:24:11 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
What a great idea Michael! 
Wish I had thought of that. 
Joking aside, I really do. It's such a wonderfully simple and perfect fit, beautifully realised. Surprising and yet, somehow, inevitable. Mariner at his best! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 02/12/21 03:53:14 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
You have massively overdone the praise, David, but I thank you anyway. Your own work has, over the years, gone from strength to strength, and is now, in my humble opinion, approaching divine perfection.  |
Posted on 02/12/21 1:40:15 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Devilish deception might be more apt.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 02/12/21 4:22:15 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Gordon, very funny
Michael very clever.
Just to say I have greatly improved my spinning wheel (my best yet for a two-framer), so take a look if you like  |
Posted on 02/12/21 8:39:03 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Yes it's amazingly convincing! And very interesting ........ David enters professorial mode ..... As I look, it spontaneously changes between forward and reverse. This is the classic stuff of all illusions. Enough information for the brain to make a deduction (movement) but not enough for it to make an informed decision (direction). It's the motion equivalent of the classic cubic tile pattern where the the brain keeps spontaneously oscillating between view from above or view from below because the lack of vanishing points in an isometric representation gives the brain enough information to pre-suppose depth but not enough to assess proper perspective. In this instance I suspect that this is totally inevitable because two frames quite simply cannot provide an unequivocal rotation as they are in point of fact an oscillation. But in the context of a car, experience causes us to perceive this as a rotation. End of dissertation (and probable brain ache). Believe or not I actually find these speculations and musings fun! 
Time to get a life ...........  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 02/12/21 8:39:04 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Double post removed. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 02/12/21 9:02:43 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Yes! An excellent eloquent explanation of how the eye tricks the brain/mind into perceiving motion.  |
Posted on 03/12/21 08:01:56 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
First to work the car this week was Ant Snell, with a nicely made Columbo scene and an appealingly dirtied car. Is the man himself standing in a hole, though? Only you haven’t left room for his legs. Perfect angle matching with the pink Roller from DavidMac. But where are Parker and Lady Penelope? I like the ghostly Barbara Cartland in the second entry, and that’s a good stab at those complex reflections in the bonnet - but the dog’s reflected head should, of course, be angled the other way; and I think that bright pink would produce a pink reflection: 
I enjoyed the reduced version in the third entry, especially the way it has been turned into a convertible. Perfectly done. And from Barbara to Barbie in the fourth entry - love the Nissan number plate. And another fine conversion. Splendid use of four versions in the fifth entry - I suspect you scoured Google for these. But why the Dark Side of the Moon cover? Festive fun from lwc, with two Christmas scenes in one - and it was still November when you posted them! I like the reflections of the lights in the car in the first scene, and the sparks in the second. A more serene setting in the second entry, with slowly drifting snow. The perspective on the car is much too strong at this distance, though; a bit of straightening out would help, although it’s not easy. The Bahamas trip in the third entry is a lot of fun - those rolling waves are excellent. As David says, the introduction of the interior is an impressive touch. A truly bizarre monster wheel version in the fourth entry. It’s Pink Panther time for Frank, with a glorious homage to Inspecteurrrr Clouseau (and, of course, his beurm). Great eyelashes on the car. The decal on the front and the furry dice are splendid, but it’s the skill with which you’ve made the windows translucent that most impresses me. Splendid. Barbie and Ken from tooquilos, in front of an appropriately pink house - and I like how the car fits into the garage. You might want to consider a sky without the visible sun, though, since it’s rather at odds with the lighting of the scene. And is the house a little lacking in contrast, perhaps? The captions in the animated version are fun, but I’d love to have seen the car drive out of the garage at the end. I like michael sinclair’s fairy godmother, and the way the car is smiling at the prospect. Good wheel spin in the animated version - but losing the lettering would have made it even more convincing. And is that Boris at the wheel? A rotated view from GKB, and I suspect some 3D trickery was involved. Ah yes, there it is in the animated version - along with a perfectly running Pink Panther. Fantastic to see Thunderbird 2 in action again, and the way the car drives out of it is brilliant. And good to see Lady P with Parker at the wheel. Absolutely brilliant, Gordon. What fun. Spot-on perspective from Mariner, with the car resting on its original box. I did a Google search for that box and couldn’t find one, which leads me to believe you must have adapted a different one - in which case, many congratulations. Another near-perfect job. (It would have been 100% if you’d sorted out the reflections on the windscreen.) |
Posted on 03/12/21 08:28:53 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3723 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Thanks Steve. Had fun with this one. Great work everyone. _________________ |
Posted on 03/12/21 08:58:46 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2817 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Steve, the box was originally for a Volvo. I cut the box up and bent it to fit the prespective. Thanks for the congratulations. I left the middle reflections on the windscreen because they looked about right. The RH reflection I created, and the LH reflection I blended out. Imagining a reflection is rather difficult, isn't it. |
Posted on 03/12/21 3:18:23 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2630 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Thanks Steve, to the Bahamas was a fun trip. |
Posted on 03/12/21 5:32:47 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
HA!! I was waiting for you to spot that one! I spotted it after posting and left it because I don't normally like changing mistakes once posted. It always feels a little bit close to cheating.
I was completely stumped by this. I truly have absolutely no idea whether pink reflected reflected in pink would produce a denser pink compound or whether, contrarily, it would be absorbed and scarcely visible. Neither looked right so I left it in the middle. I would love to know the answer to this one.
Surprisingly easy to find if you re-colour - which I did.
Er .... um ....... not quite sure I understand the question Steve. The four 'drivers' are Pink Floyd! Thanks for this one I really had fun with it. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/12/21 10:47:19 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1576 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Thanks so much Steve. |
Posted on 03/12/21 11:08:52 PM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
I completely missed the reference. Stupid of me, it’s so obvious. |
Posted on 04/12/21 09:09:49 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 885: In the pink
Nice to see something slip past you occasionally Steve. It happens so rarely. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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