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Posted on 26/07/19 09:22:21 AM
Steve Caplin
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Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
I'm indebted to DavidMac for this week's Challenge: a view of the workshop of 16th century printer and publisher Christophe Plantin, which is now a museum in Antwerp. You can read more about this extraordinary man here.

Your mission: show how this room would have looked in Plantin's day.

High res is here.



Posted on 26/07/19 10:35:47 AM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Steve, was it wise to accept this picture from David? I mean, he will already have prepared N different versions and could bang them all in before breakfast. Just kidding.


Posted on 26/07/19 10:39:26 AM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
That's a nice restful banner Loyd.

Posted on 26/07/19 10:44:24 AM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Mariner wrote:
Steve, was it wise to accept this picture from David? I mean, he will already have prepared N different versions and could bang them all in before breakfast. Just kidding.


Oh you cynic!

Nothing prepared. I am not even sure whether a proposer should participate. In any event my son arrives at the weekend to stay for a week with his two kids. So I am going to be very busy. Any entry is going to be nominal .........

....... and don't look so sceptical!

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Posted on 26/07/19 10:52:33 AM
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Posted on 26/07/19 12:44:22 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
I am very curious to see what our animators will get moving .........

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Posted on 26/07/19 2:08:10 PM
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DavidMac wrote:
I am very curious to see what our animators will get moving .........


As, at the moment, am I

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Posted on 26/07/19 2:34:17 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Mariner wrote:
That's a nice restful banner Loyd.


Thanks Mariner. Don't watch it too long, it can make you sleepy.

Posted on 26/07/19 2:36:41 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
The workshop is going to slow down the pace of entries this week for sure.

I could enter one now if I move only the light...

Posted on 26/07/19 3:12:21 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop

Thanks, David, for an interesting challenge.

To the Animators "Yah boo sucks!"



Posted on 26/07/19 4:43:26 PM
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Ye olde coppe outte.
Despite Mariners fears I really didn't have anything prepared and I really don't have any time this week. So this little piece of pure evasion is all you're going to see from me.



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Posted on 26/07/19 5:05:14 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
BTW Steve, I thought this might be the perfect opportunity to try out the engraver plugin. It's very hard to find source materiel of 16th century printers except in engravings. So to make everything an engraving made sense.

Sadly it proved to be a disappointment. Not really usable - at least not for this image.

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Posted on 26/07/19 5:14:10 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Before you dash off David, would you like to tell me what those three black boxes are. They look like loudspeakers, but if so, why so many?

Posted on 26/07/19 5:47:01 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Mariner wrote:
Before you dash off David, would you like to tell me what those three black boxes are. They look like loudspeakers, but if so, why so many?


My guess is they're shutters for the lower part of the windows.

Posted on 26/07/19 6:43:57 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Steve Caplin wrote:
Mariner wrote:
Before you dash off David, would you like to tell me what those three black boxes are. They look like loudspeakers, but if so, why so many?


My guess is they're shutters for the lower part of the windows.


Bingo!

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Posted on 27/07/19 01:43:35 AM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Thanks both.

Posted on 27/07/19 12:24:28 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Now, then and as painted...





Posted on 28/07/19 10:27:27 AM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Engraving effect/plugin was what I had in mind too.. this is a first attempt at something that could be developed further..



Posted on 28/07/19 5:22:53 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
Oh shoot! Just noticed something...........

Every single one of us so far, myself included, seems to feel that 16th century Antwerp was sufficiently advanced technologically to have central heating radiators!!

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Posted on 28/07/19 5:34:21 PM
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Re: Challenge 766: Plantin's workshop
In the entry I posted, I got rid of some of the pipes and missed some too...
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