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Posted on 07/08/19 5:13:37 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Glad you liked it. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 08/08/19 00:30:09 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2634 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: Photobomb
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Posted on 08/08/19 07:39:46 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: Photobomb
 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 08/08/19 10:31:18 AM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Just before I looked at the challenge for this week, the News reported that the glaciers on Greenland were melting right on track with the worst-case scenario for climate change. Scientists have now raised the estimate for sea level rise from one meter to two meters by 2050. I'm afraid this isn't one of my light-hearted animations. And, I'm guilty of not doing very much to stop this slow-moving disaster. No starting image either as I just don't have the heart to submit one. When finding the images of the plastics I ran across some interesting albeit frightening facts. All the plastics ever produced are still out in the environment. They don't degrade into more simple compounds like other waste. They do fracture into smaller and smaller pieces, but they are still plastics. These small pieces are working their way up the food chain and into us. Animation: http://vimeo.com/352667421 _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 08/08/19 11:26:30 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2820 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Sara, and everybody, here is one of my favourite rants. I'll keep it short. For centuries, millenia even, we have been using the seas and rivers as massive waste disposal outlets, thinking it did little harm. Then we started polluting the air and cutting down the trees on an industrial scale, thinking it did little harm. All the while we were busy breeding like rats, encouraged by a whole load of crazy religious writings going back centuries, thinking it was quite a good thing to do. The time to pay the bill is very close now, and I am starting to be quite glad that I am 74 years old. |
Posted on 08/08/19 11:51:30 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2800 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
There is some amazing work this week. Loyd, turning the boat into a clipper is fabulous. Michael, Mathilde is beautiful. I love the balcony you have added. Very grand and majestic. David, I watched the series of Siren. The description between Hans Christian Anderson and NIN is very accurate! Thinking it was about mermaids I started watching it with my 9 year old granddaughter..I turned it off and waited till she went home! I didn't know it was a musical as well! I love your fantasy boat. Ant, congratulations with the news of becoming a granddad soon! It's a completely different league to having your own children. You let them get away with just about anything and you stand back and smile with pride. My daughter shakes her head in confusion and disbelief and she says, Mum you would of killed me if I had done this or that and yet you are so proud of when the girls do it. I don't understand! http://vimeo.com/352677094  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 08/08/19 1:52:34 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Spoiling your grand kids is part of grandparent privilege. We really try not to do it - but it's all too easy sometimes ......... Your animation is once again enviably good and fun. I love the boat being pulled out of the house. It was completely unexpected at the start. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 08/08/19 1:54:59 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3727 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Yay! And a fix of John Denver thrown in _________________  |
Posted on 08/08/19 2:31:03 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2634 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Thanks Anna. Your "The Boat" is, as always, solid and well thought out. I like the end with the boat being put back in place... very nice! |
Posted on 08/08/19 2:47:01 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2634 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
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Posted on 08/08/19 3:01:29 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2820 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Lovely work Anna, and thanks. |
Posted on 08/08/19 8:41:40 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1753 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Great work everyone 
LIMITATIONS IN FILE SIZE This is a 48 framer and 13 mb file size, so yes I could have made everything smother (Aircraft carrier) if I created 200 frames, but then Photobucket would give me the two fingered salute; not to mention I would be still be working my balushkars off. Cutting out the sailing ship took me three and a half hours with the pen tool. Watch out for the billowing sails and an aircraft carrier (one of the new big uns, and out of the thousands of images of Aircraft carriers, this is only one of four side profiles I could find!) on steroids. 
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Posted on 08/08/19 9:24:50 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Staggering Michael. Looks to me like a nigh on impeccable cut out. i have to frankly admit I would never have the patience and application to achieve it.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 09/08/19 00:20:03 AM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
I just about started crying when I saw a video about people investigating the great garbage patch. And to think this has been created in my lifetime. As a child I used to love watching the documentaries by Jacques Cousteau. What would he say today? _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 09/08/19 02:19:50 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2820 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
He would say the same things as David Attenborough. |
Posted on 19/08/19 08:47:29 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
First to launch the boat this week was lwc, with some fine shimmering watering and a cut seagull. I like the inclusion of the boat - but it’s so far out of the water it would have to be filled with helium! I prefer the more subtle wildlife in the second entry, and Michael Sinclair was right about the boat movement. A fun third entry in the jacuzzi. A rather beautiful fourth entry - but shouldn’t that toucan be getting somewhere with all that flapping? But the standing birds are perfect. A very interesting reimagining of the viewpoint in the fifth entry. A stormy scene from GKB, with a curious boat hybrid. As glorious animated version, with great water and lightning. Is the soundtrack a little too serene, perhaps? I enjoyed the ship in a bottle in the second entry, particularly with the addition of the new figurehead. And waves of nostalgia from the third entry featuring Captain Pugwash!* A desert setting from Ant Snell, with a curious agglomeration of perspectives: bringing the background down a lot would probably have fixed it. I like the cannon fire, and the added pirates. I see how Monty Python’s corporate raiders were your inspiration for this one. And congratulations on your new status! A beautiful reconstruction from Mariner, with a recreated hull and rearranged deck. A perfectly realised railing, and you’ve done well to cope with the strong perspective of the tower section. Tremendous work. Perfect composition from Linda Eckert, making excellent use of the space. The lighting on the seagull matches the sun placement precisely. My only small issue is with the angle of the waterline on the boat: it should be sloping down to the right, in line with the contour of the boat, rather than up. A Jules Verne fantasy from DavidMac, with fine attention to detail: the over/underwater split works particularly well. I really like all the texture and complexity in this one. Compressing the gazebo section vertically does, of course, help a lot with the strong perspective. A solemn message from srawland: no gags here, but a salutary warning. I particularly like the slight swaying of the flagpole rope, wafting forlornly in the breeze. A subsea wreck from tooquilos, with just the hint of a pirate flag buried among the rocks. I really like how the boat is tugged out of the building in the animated version - the man in the window adds a great human element (and great curtain opening). Loved seeing Venice in there, and the gentle movement of the whale’s tail is impressive. The clean-up scene is neat - I like the time-passing compass - and a tidy ending. Shouldn’t the man in the window be dressed by now? A lot of work went into michael sinclair’s cutout - and yes, the billowing sails do work well. The aircraft carrier provides a great sense of scale. Nice work. ________________________ Thanks David, for the starting image. * For those brought up in the UK, and of a certain age, Captain Pugwash was an intrinsic part of our childhood. I visited an exhibition a few years ago in which, in a glass case, stood the real Captain Pugwash in all his cardboard glory: it was like being in the presence of royalty. Needless to say, rumours of the inclusion of a Seaman Stains and Roger the Cabin Boy among the crew are totally unfounded. |
Posted on 19/08/19 09:18:24 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3727 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Thanks Steve The theme used was the Adagio from Spartacus by Khatchaturian which featured as the theme of the tv series ‘The Onedin Line’ _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 19/08/19 10:07:05 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Yes. Which is, of course, why. Even putting my 'camera' at water level to look up as much as possible, this still caused problems. Thanks Steve. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/08/19 10:22:25 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2820 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Steve wrote "...Tremendous work." And a generous critique. Thanks Steve, welcome back. |
Posted on 19/08/19 2:04:05 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2634 Reply |
Re: Challenge 767: The houseboat
Thanks Steve, I always look forward to your critiques... I take note that you offered no comment on the one that I liked best: http://i.imgur.com/n65RzB6.gif Does it not show up on your Mac??? |
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