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Posted on 22/02/11 10:39:02 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Great work Anna, that must be difficult, Creativity drives us, and we have to complete as much as we can, enjoy! Great works all, hope now can contribute one later ..... |
Posted on 23/02/11 09:56:41 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2920 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Thank you Trevor 
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Posted on 23/02/11 11:10:30 AM |
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JmarcP
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Great idea Jean-Marc. Thank you Sophie |
Posted on 23/02/11 6:34:53 PM |
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Garfield72
Montage Manceau Posts: 353 Reply  |
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Posted on 23/02/11 6:35:23 PM |
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Sophie
Political Parodist Posts: 595 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Not surprised you struggled Anna. Fantastic work as usual. |
Posted on 24/02/11 07:35:06 AM |
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Marty
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Needs more work. Busy week, out of time  |
Posted on 24/02/11 3:09:08 PM |
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emanuelefrau
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
The industrial palace...  _________________ italian Photoshopper |
Posted on 24/02/11 3:37:18 PM |
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Daniel
Poser Professor Posts: 192 Reply  |
Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Great entries from everybody ... Specially Lonnie’s entry, it is magnificent... Only one practical comment: those parts of the building where the curvature goes inside will be shadowed (and will receive too little light) by those parts where the curvature goes out ... 
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Posted on 24/02/11 6:38:41 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Well I started off doing an image based on one from Advanced Photoshop magazine - and then it started to look like a face. Easter Island eat your heart out. (A place I still want to get to).  |
Posted on 24/02/11 8:06:47 PM |
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2tonezack
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Great work everybody, I was hoping to get some time to work on this weeks challenge. But it doesn't look like that is going to happen. Oh well try again next week. |
Posted on 24/02/11 8:08:38 PM |
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bpackett09
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Posted on 24/02/11 8:37:17 PM |
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Emil
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
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Posted on 24/02/11 9:33:12 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Sorry just very short time again this week (but my moving house/rebuild is nothing compared to NZ, OZ and Middle East and many others are going through. .....I think of them) So this is just a quick one if you don't mind. More conceptual than PS/art I like that Emil , and Deborah yours looks great. bpackett09, welcome, we can help you get a larger image... I really must go....
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Posted on 25/02/11 08:24:48 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
A lot of entertaining approaches this week, with an interesting variety of shapes and architectural styles applied to our building. First to tackle the job was Ben Mills, with a nicely implausible construction: I like the almost random cutouts, and the way one floor has been turned into a cutaway gallery. Not sure I'd like to work in the floors above, though. And the waving girl is a nice touch, even if she is 50 feet high! A neatly carved hole from bjansen - and I like the way the texture on the curved top has been copied to the side, a nice idea. From this angle, though, the inner circle (the one we can only partially see) should be rather lower. It's a perspective issue, and this is compounded in the second entry: the line of the windows that we see through the hole should match the angle of the windows on the side of the building, since even though the surface is curved in one dimension, it aligns with it in the other. It's a tricky perspective to get right, though! Another view of the same scene from james, who turns the building into a cheese grater, followed by a hang glider leaving the top of the cheese grater. To make that hang glider move, you must have made a separately transformed layer for each frame: James, you really need to check out After Effects! Interesting how brown the building appears in the original, isn't it - and a fun transformation. I like Brewell's approach to architect-builder relations - sure, why not make them work for their living! Although the end result is perhaps not an office block I'd like like to work on the inside of... Glorious work from LonnieK, with multiple additions and alterations: the two sections reminiscent of stamping feet, the hole in the side, the waterfall effect - all beautifully detailed, right down to changing the brightness of some of the windows to make them look lived-in. It's the chrome effect, that powerful shininess, that really catches the eye: beautiful stuff, Lonnie. A really attractive image. I like Sophie's giant XBox headquarters, especially with the hint of a roof garden. But I'm wondering if perhaps the building might be more convincing if the X were in the same perspective as the windows? Just a thought. puffin31939 is full of apology, but in fact this is a top-notch job:the interesting cutouts, the perspective of the inside of the hole, the occasional lit windows, all combine to make a very appealing image. I wonder, though: wouldn't that top curved section be made of glass? So how would that appear when it's lit from the inside? A fun take on Remington from Dooley, complete with switches, an LCD screen and a neat foil shaving head. I like the way the whole building has been curved into a more ergonomic shape. Nice work! I like JmarcP's idea of turning the building into a rocket, and that's a very good base - it really gives the sense of an enormous energy source, both on the lit ring and the stream of vapour below it. But why does the upper half of the building have this strange distortion on the texture? Is this deliberate? A retro idea from tooquilos, with the building rather beautifully made into an old Space Invaders arcade game. Loads of detail, from the LED panel at the top to the cutting down of the side windows to make a second LED display - beautifully achieved. And the animated version is truly extraordinary: what a huge amount of work you've done on this! Beautiful! A lot of cantilevering from Garfield72, who has turned the building into a giant letter P (for reasons that I'm sure make sense to Garfield72). I like the new curve at the top of the P, and the underside texture. And is that Adobe flag there just to annoy the hell out of Quark across the street? I like Marty's reshaping, with the added clock face that makes so much sense of that end of the building. Great angle on the clock, and some neatly cut away windows to make space for it. I see that, like most Denver residents, you're prone to exaggerating the size of the mountains! Are they perhaps a little too high, even by Denver standards? emanuelefrau has set himself an interesting exercise in perspective, a task that would daunt many of us. And it's extremely well achieved: all those sets of windows, and the angles on the interior, do make sense with the perspective of the view - and this must have taken some working out. The smoke at the top seems to turn the whole building into a giant factory, although the legs make it look rather more like a barbecue. Very neat smoke! Is this photographed, or painted directly in? Not sure about the aerial display team, although it's good to see them trailing the Italian flag - and I like the solitary person! For someone who claims not to like perspective, Deborah Morley has set herself an extraordinarily tricky private challenge this week - and it works beautifully, with excellent cutaways and projections. The shading on the inside of the holes is excellent, as are the shadows beneath the projections. I can see why you've added the shadows on the left of the projections, to make them stand out from the building behind, but are you sure these are necessary? Do they fit with the overall lighting on the building? That's the only thing that bothers me, in an otherwise fantastic job. Our new member this week is bpackett09, whose building has occasional lights to make it appear occupied. I like the way this is done, but are they just too yellow? Try knocking the saturation back for a more realistic appearance. A great stormy sky, though, and I like the lightning bolts. Also, you need to check out Photoshop's Save For Web feature, so you can post a larger version of your image. Check out the handy explanation here. Welcome to the forum! A magnificently restrained image from Emil, who has turned the building into a diving board: there's a real sense of terror in those nervous legs, and that vast expanse of black space in front of them. Excellent! The building has been turned into a rather neat solar panel in Jota120's entry - and, after all, it's quite possible that what I took to be a glass roof is, in fact, a solar panel array. Neat shading, and painstaking cutaways on all those windows: and I like the way the building intersects with the satellite. Good work all round. |
Posted on 25/02/11 08:52:00 AM |
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Emil
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Thank you for your comments Steve and Trevor. _________________ There are most happy who have no story to tell. - Anthony Trollope. |
Posted on 25/02/11 09:14:53 AM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Thanks Steve. Yes I realise the shadows didn't match with the existing building, but as you say it helped the units stand out. Shall try one without shadows and one where i adjust the building. Thanks Trevor. Great image Emil. |
Posted on 25/02/11 09:32:28 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2920 Reply |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Thank you so much Steve. I had a lot of fun revisiting Space Invaders and remembering how the aliens marched down. Thank heavens for YouTube lol. Thank you also Soph. Lovely banner this week too _________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 25/02/11 10:37:26 AM |
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JmarcP
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Thank you for your comments Steve... The strange distortion is delibarate... because there is a big energy and many vibrations. Thanks |
Posted on 25/02/11 1:19:00 PM |
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emanuelefrau
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Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Thanks Steve. I played around in Photoshop, I helped with some reference lines too carried vanishing points was more than the rectangle of image .. The smoke of the barbeque (ah ah ah) was hand-painted ... _________________ italian Photoshopper |
Posted on 25/02/11 4:01:08 PM |
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puffin31939
Montage Mariner Posts: 383 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 339: Sky Scraping
Thanks, Steve. I thought the curved roof might be solar panels so I left well alone. (I would have left it alone anyway even if I had been certain it was windows!) I originally intended to set the skyscraper against a rather nice sunrise. Then I thought about the problem of working out the shadows and settled for dusk. (I had just done the day to night exercise in 'Cheat' so it was good practice.) _________________ Man cannot change the direction of the wind but he can adjust the sails |
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