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Posted on 19/09/23 01:21:34 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2840 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
http://vimeo.com/865777815 Muppets, robots, ladies of the night, and Ben's extraordinary collection of characters are fabulous, but it the gnomes that got me. They are simply perfect there.  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 19/09/23 12:47:22 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2858 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Bots got talent... good one Anna!  |
Posted on 19/09/23 9:56:08 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Anna that's great! Love the moulin rouge background. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/09/23 10:08:20 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
This a museum of automata. Being sometimes a rather literal minded soul and bearing in mind that automata (as opposed to robots) belong very much to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century I wanted to try and echo this. Much, much more work than I intended ..... by far the hardest part being creating a unified background from Steve's very differently coloured photos. In the end I started to run out of time on the figures so there's more than a few dodgy cut outs and details but, on the whole, I am fairly pleased with this.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/09/23 10:13:24 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
BTW no generative fill or extend used for the background and removing all the tables and chairs. All done by hand. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/09/23 00:06:56 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2858 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Looks like a lot of work David... nicely done! |
Posted on 20/09/23 00:08:34 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2858 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The Minions Take Over
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Posted on 20/09/23 5:31:18 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
I like the pincushioning. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/09/23 7:38:18 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2858 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Thanks, just something to give it a 'different' look. |
Posted on 20/09/23 7:40:18 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2858 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: Maria Does Automata
Based on Fritz Lang’s film, Metropolis 1927 |
Posted on 20/09/23 8:21:44 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Oh wow! Metropolis. I love that film. So, so, far ahead of its time. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 20/09/23 9:12:37 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2858 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Indeed it was, fun to watch... there is no doubt that C3PO of Starwars fame was copied from Maria. |
Posted on 20/09/23 9:15:49 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1797 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Good work from everybody
David, your latest entry has to be the best work I've seen from you: it certainly does not look fake. This is a real work of exemplary art. I award you the triple Gold Star! 
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Posted on 21/09/23 05:13:42 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2863 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
David, that's excellent work putting the two streets together, and it must have taken hours to put all those characters into it. Well done! |
Posted on 21/09/23 05:18:07 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2863 Reply |
"Look! Is that a fox?"
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Posted on 21/09/23 06:11:13 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Thank you Micheal. There were ways I wanted to polish it a bit further but I couldn’t devote any more time. But I am happy with it. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/09/23 06:12:52 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Micheal I love the way you have given it the miniature town look. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/09/23 06:15:27 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2863 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Thanks David. Unintended. It was turning night into day that was a challenge. |
Posted on 21/09/23 06:47:52 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5208 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
Interesting. The very high level of clean up has given the street the look of a perfect model which of course is aided by the scale of Alice. The conversion to day is seamlessly done. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/09/23 09:20:29 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2863 Reply |
Re: Challenge 972: The automated street
David I never really took to photos taken at night. This one was a particularly bad example, with all those spotlights. I thought it would be entertaining changing night to day, especially as I love big jobs. And this one was BIG. Luckily there was another almost identical photo on the net which had much highter resolution, so that helped. Later on I was stuck to put in a figure or figures and finally picked Alice, who has once again been eating magic mushrooms and has grown to giant size. |
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