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Posted on 19/09/19 2:02:26 PM
DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
Eva Roth wrote:
so here's a bit of last minute re-shuffling..


I keep trying to think of something smart to say along the lines of 'Cat among the pigeons' ............ but I can't think of anything.

Sweet image. Like the way you have adapted the cubbyhole sizes.



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Posted on 19/09/19 6:41:29 PM
Eva Roth
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I wonder where that expression comes from.. none of my cats ever went for pigeons.. probably too much work.. only one of them once dragged a dead pigeon in off the street.
What I really wanted to do when I looked at the starting image was something like this image - a good little exercise, but a bit dull to look at..



Posted on 20/09/19 03:51:01 AM
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
David wrote
... I can picture myself stupidly struggling to find a bottle rack picture, with just the right perspective to fit, from which I could extract the bottles!

David I wish I had enough patience to fiddle with the parallax on 18 bottles, but I don't. I managed to find a bottle rack picture, with just the right perspective to fit, from which I could extract the bottles!
Thanks.


Posted on 20/09/19 04:52:02 AM
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
I forgot to add an "Original images" section to my animation.

Here are my originals for the pigeon. I thought I'd include it now just in case someone thought I had merely added a clip of a pigeon. Nope, I keyframe animated it. Frank: What I find works the best is to make as many copies of an image as you need parts. There needs to be some overlap between the pieces.



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Posted on 20/09/19 07:36:15 AM
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
First to fill the bird boxes this week was lwc, with a neatly matched set of birds - and a furiously flapping dove that makes me feel exhausted. I enjoyed the subtle movements - and the variety - in the second entry, although that bird at the top could do with a nod or two. And an interesting zoom idea in the third entry; shouldn’t the index finger move as it triggers the zoom knob, though? The dove in the fourth entry looks desperately frantic! Is that speed for real? I like the nodding bird next to it. A beautiful fifth entry, the reference being to crows at Puy du Fou being trained to collect cigarette butts to clean the place up. That’s a very complex sixth entry - ingenious work, amazing how much story you can work into a single image.hh

A touch of satire from DavidMac - perfectly judged, very astute. I like the fact that the original image is untouched. And to answer your question: yes, the bird at the top is closer to the camera, as your deductions regarding the ceiling beam proved. And you may be right about Viking war methods - but the second entry has a certain simple charm to it. I just wish that Viking didn’t look so much like me.

Ingenious work from Mariner, who has reconstructed the bird boxes as an iron grating - with great ingenuity. My only query here is regarding the position of the rivets. At the joins between the verticals and horizontals, certainly; but why in between? What are they holding together? Some glorious perspectives on those bottles in the second entry, complete with dead rodents. Please tell me you didn’t draw all those bottles! Or did you just adjust the cork ends, as David suggests?

A beguiling selection of random objects from tooquilos, all neatly placed behind chickenwire. Very enjoyable to stare at. The slow tracking in the animated version really shows off the three-dimensional nature of the construction - I recognise that gold carousel! I’m sure if you found a disused bird box this is precisely what you’d do with it. As, indeed, would I.

Terrific work from Ant Snell, with perfectly filled boxes - where did you find all those photos of the same kid? I really like how you’ve constructed this, with some limbs hanging over the edge and a sense of interaction between them. Fabulous, Ant.

A tight formation of doves from michael sinclair, which really make sense in the second entry. That’s a very clean bird box you’ve created there, Michael! I like the nodding heads, not sure about the oscillating dove on the right. It looks like it’s about to explode. (Although now I wish I hadn’t put that thought in your head.) Can’t see any difference between that and the third entry?

A clever entry from Frank, whose combination of animated birds along with the dog and rabbit really makes you look hard at the animation. I like how the pigeon looks down at the rabbit - a nice piece of interaction. And a great selection of sounds, too.

An emptied bird box from srawland, beautifully accomplished: it’s just the odd shadow that gives the sense of the missing birds. I loved the animated version - the tapping of the dove is precisely synched with the video. Made me laugh. And thanks for showing the constituent parts: I was sure you’d used a video of a dove. Highly convincing.

Some subtle reconfiguring of the box sizes from Eva Roth, with very neatly adjusted dividers - an ingenious solution to the problem of fitting larger animals in the spaces. Well, that’s certainly put the cats among the pigeons. And I like the sparseness of the second entry, with its neatly emptied boxes.


Posted on 20/09/19 09:09:05 AM
DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
Mariner wrote:
David wrote
... I can picture myself stupidly struggling to find a bottle rack picture, with just the right perspective to fit, from which I could extract the bottles!

David I wish I had enough patience to fiddle with the parallax on 18 bottles, but I don't. I managed to find a bottle rack picture, with just the right perspective to fit, from which I could extract the bottles!
Thanks.




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Posted on 20/09/19 09:14:13 AM
DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
Steve Caplin wrote:
I like the fact that the original image is untouched


Not quite. The gossips were 'created'.

I just wish that Viking didn’t look so much like me.


Quite unintentional I assure you. It's put together from sevral sources. It proved, unsurprisingly, quite difficult to find a picture of a Viking with his fingers in his ears ..........

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Posted on 20/09/19 09:38:38 AM
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
Steve

Rivets: just something I copied from the web. I should have removed the superfluous ones.

Bottles: just something I copied from the web. They just needed a bit of polishing.

Thanks for your perceptive critique.

Posted on 20/09/19 4:51:24 PM
Eva Roth
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
thank you Steve! A bit of a dull entry from me this week… The fact that you only mentioned the bottom row being empty in my second entry makes me think that I didn’t do too badly when moving all pigeons to new boxes, having adjusted colour and lightless of them and the respective bits of straw beforehand…

Posted on 20/09/19 10:25:38 PM
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Thank you, Steve. Now that you've seen the constituent parts, you should realize that what I did was sync the dove taping with the audio.

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Posted on 21/09/19 01:52:26 AM
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Re: Challenge 773: The bird box
Thanks Steve, another fun challenge.
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