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Posted on 28/02/05 4:20:48 PM |
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Dezolat0r
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
That's brilliant. What about the lighting? Was that Photoshop? It seems awfully advanced for it. Then again, I can barely use it myself so I wouldn't know  |
Posted on 28/02/05 5:06:58 PM |
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trinityofone
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
Duh - has nobody found the Spookily Lit Skeleton filter in Photoshop yet?  _________________ A happy-go-lucky chap, always dressed in black |
Posted on 28/02/05 11:01:31 PM |
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BobbyJo
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
Spooky
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Posted on 28/02/05 11:26:44 PM |
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julie
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
Wow - I didn't know Poser could do skeletons. I may have to give it a try afterall. This is a toughie this week. I tried to make a big pile of dirt and it ended up looking like a big pile of poo instead. |
Posted on 01/03/05 00:27:04 AM |
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BobbyJo
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Yes indeed, I know what you mean. Getting the dug out earth was a real problem and I'm still not happy about it. There must be a better way than messing around with a texture for ages. I couldn't get this to look convincing no matter how I altered it  Couldn't find a freshly dug grave anywhere to get an idea either
This is a toughie this week. I tried to make a big pile of dirt and it ended up looking like a big pile of poo instead.
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Posted on 01/03/05 5:55:32 PM |
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maiden
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
Apologies to any Meat Loaf fans  _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 01/03/05 8:47:43 PM |
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BobbyJo
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Bus out of Hull, brilliant. I was going to call mine 'Tomb With A view' .... now I'll get my coat
Nice one Maiden. Apologies to any Meat Loaf fans _________________ BJ - Photoshop driver just qualified. |
Posted on 02/03/05 1:22:42 PM |
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eventer
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
I just love these Friday challenges, this 'website to go with the book' is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I have never heard of 'Poser' but I am off to find out.  |
Posted on 02/03/05 4:53:39 PM |
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tabitha 1
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Seen as though everyone else has gone for the creepy/ghoulish/ghostly stuff, I thought I would have a quick go at Political Satire... Digging their Own Grave  _________________ "There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age." Benjamin Spock. |
Posted on 02/03/05 5:27:24 PM |
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maiden
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Haha Tabs that is sheer class, nice Harry's swastika too a great touch, and the heads fit those bodies as if you had got Charlie & Camilla to pose for the montage in person _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 02/03/05 5:34:49 PM |
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tabitha 1
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Many thanks Maiden, I feel that it would have been alot easier to ask Clarence House than try to find an image of Camilla on the net... Googling was a virtual no-hoper! I do like the look of determination on the one I did find though, looks like she is digging as if her life depended on it 
I did try to form the clouds into a silluette of Diana looking down and laughing but I just couldn't do it... anyone with any hints on how this could be done?? BTW, I hope I have not offended any loyal followers of the Royal Family out there, but in light of recent quotes from HRH, I feel it needed to be done! _________________ "There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age." Benjamin Spock. |
Posted on 02/03/05 5:37:36 PM |
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trinityofone
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That's great Tabs!! As Becky says, it's almost as if they had posed! Just one thing, you missed the R out in Monarchy _________________ A happy-go-lucky chap, always dressed in black |
Posted on 02/03/05 5:44:15 PM |
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tabitha 1
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Ahhh, I'm glad you spotted that! Its a neo-farcical analogy of the way that the Bourgeoisie try to command the Proletariat by adding pointless letters into words that do not really need them, so as to keep them undermined and under the thumb of the ruling classes! I thought everyone knew that.... 
Ok I need a dictionary!!  _________________ "A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." Herm Albright. |
Posted on 02/03/05 5:54:05 PM |
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maiden
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I'm with you there, comrade - down with the Royal "Rs" 
_________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 03/03/05 08:18:06 AM |
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Paul McFadden
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I know the perspective/ foreshortening sucks - Im awaiting Steve's new chapters with anticipation.  |
Posted on 03/03/05 7:02:56 PM |
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julie
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I'm not too happy about how this turned out - I missed two weeks of challenges and I feel like I've forgotten the very little that I knew about PS!  |
Posted on 04/03/05 02:14:10 AM |
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Atomicfog
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Ok, I'm finally back... I definently like some of these entrys... Here is how I started off, But I didn't want to do a landscape... 
So... here is my entry. 
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Posted on 04/03/05 08:39:50 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
A splendid set of entries this week! You've all had a chance to push your ghoulish tendencies to the fore, and I'm really impressed with the results. I'll definitely try to get these into the next edition. David got in first, with a jaunty gravedigger sporting a lumberjack shirt and straw hat. Great moody setting, some powerful shadows, and a realistic grass edge. Perfect choice of sky, too, I like the way the moon is hidden behind his head. The colouring matches the scene well. Great fantasy work from Dezolat0r, whose question inspired this challenge. The grisly beast emerging from the grave may be more zombie than cat, but that's a fine smear of mud in front of him, and a cleanly engraved tombstone (with perhaps a touch too much bevel on the lettering). Excellent synthetic fog (I love the Clouds filter) and that hazy moon is beautifully drawn. Great job! A fine moody shot, full of anticipation, from ChrisPucci. But are you sure that oil lamp is bright enough? And why is it casting a shadow? And since it is, where's the shadow coming from? A nice feel to it overall, though, and the night colouring works well on the grass and stone. Glen, what a cracker! I've always loved Poser, and this is one of the reasons why. Fantastic lighting, love the sky and silhouette grass effect, and a great glow from the grave. But what are these skeletons doing, exactly? Bit late for sorting out your saucepans, isn't it? (Eventer, if you've never heard of Poser you can't have reached page 258 yet!) Powerful imagery from BobbyJo, with some great props and a remarkably neatly-dug drave. That texturing is a great idea, although I might have added a little more shading lower down so we couldn't see the bottom. Love the slime down there! and a great overall haze and fog effect. Bus out of Hull! Ha! For those of you who aren't aware, maiden has just become a bus driver in Sheffield (which must be fairly near Hull, right?) so this gag is all the more topical. So is that what your bus looks like? And do you really wear a tweed jacket to work? A really great, funny piece from Tabitha this week, with a satire on Our Future King and his fiancee. This one really made me laugh, as it did my partner (she works for him!). Those heads work incredibly well on the bodies, better than I would have thought possible. And Edward's arm band is a great touch! You asked, by the way, about rendering Diana's face in the clouds. This is something I've been asked to do (with Fidel Castro, actually) and it's as near-impossible to do well as a job can be. Paul McFadden may question his perspective, but that fisheye effect really brings the montage to life. I think it's the angles of the gravestones and the curve of the horizon that adds so much to this piece - and, of course, the great skeleton in there. But, foreshortening aside, don't you think those hands are a little excessive in size? And as a final nitpick (sorry, had to do it) when using photos of skeletons, remember to remove the struts that wire them together! A fair stab at the challenge from Julie, but there are one or two difficulties here. We're looking down on the grave too much for this perspective, and the lettering on the tombstone should surely be at a perspective angle! The eyes are great, though, and although we can't see the beast's teeth they must be very sharp to have nibbled the grass away in such a regular fashion. Smudge that grass, and the effect will be improved 100%. Not one, but two excellent last-minute entries from Atomicfog (2.14am? another insomniac!). I do like your zombie, although perhaps I preferred the scene when he was still underground. Is that a mound of earth on the grave, or a hole? I suspect the former, but it's one of those gestalt things you could see either way. Love the hand! Really good work all round, guys, thanks for taking the time! |
Posted on 04/03/05 4:00:59 PM |
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maiden
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Re: Contest 34: A grave business
Well strictly speaking I'm not a Bus-Driver yet, I'm still in training having failed my first test
Hull is about 70/80 miles away from Sheffield but the joke wouldn't have work if it was "Bus out of Meadowhall" (Meadowhall being a giant shopping complex in Sheffield - Biggest in Europe or something like that)
As for clothing there is a sort of suit but it's navy blue and I think I'd perfer the twead but apparently fashion and busdriving don't mix, haha _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
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