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Posted on 07/05/07 4:30:43 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Thanks Tom. Really impressive entries this week.  |
Posted on 09/05/07 8:06:31 PM |
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BigVern
Q Quipper Posts: 674 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Some really wonderful images from everybody this week. I sort of lost my way a bit in a myriad of layers and filters and am not sure where I was going so I stopped and posted. I wish I had the benefit of Tom's great tutorial before I got going.  |
Posted on 09/05/07 9:49:06 PM |
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Whaler
Visual Viking Posts: 330 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
So I made row-bot!  _________________ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted on 10/05/07 00:35:40 AM |
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Steve Mac
Grunge Genie Posts: 539 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Clever Whaler! _________________ Steve Mac |
Posted on 10/05/07 06:24:07 AM |
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vicho
Ingenious Inca Posts: 248 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
here´s my sailoring head...  |
Posted on 10/05/07 06:39:52 AM |
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Whaler
Visual Viking Posts: 330 Reply |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Thanks, Steve! _________________ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted on 10/05/07 4:41:20 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 101 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Ran out of time on this one, never mind!  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 10/05/07 6:30:28 PM |
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Whaler
Visual Viking Posts: 330 Reply |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
The Row-bot needed some upgrading and deserved a display stand.  _________________ Only in my brightest moments I understand myself |
Posted on 10/05/07 8:16:44 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Last minute rush, just got my computer back today.  |
Posted on 10/05/07 8:28:12 PM |
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hi-liter
Pastiche Painter Posts: 108 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Wow... some really great entries! Love the 'row-bot' lol! and the synthobrane article! 
larger version! _________________ Drawing attention to what otherwise might be overlooked... emphasizing things that matter. |
Posted on 10/05/07 11:39:24 PM |
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celosia
Wondrous Woolflower Posts: 58 Reply |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Work in progress... may or may not get finished eventually but I just want to go to bed... had a heavy week (sorting out problems from 2 years ago!) and I'm tired.  |
Posted on 11/05/07 08:09:25 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6935 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Stunning work this week! So many different approaches, and so many inspired entries. I thought this one might be too tricky, but it seems you've all managed to get great results with this Challenge. First up was Steve Mac, with a cracked-open head filled with goodies. The opacity of the head works beautifully where the contents show inside it. As to the cutaway, there are a couple of jagged edges where we can see sharp points both back and front - these could have been fixed by joining up the points. Other than that, a little shading with Dodge and Burn would have added to the realism here. My only real issue is with the angle of the eye, which doesn't seem quite right for this view. A very painterly second entry, though - I do like the surrealism of this one. Typically beautiful work from Tom, whose head has a great feeling of transparency. Using the skull as the basis for the interior is a great idea, and the distortion of the circuit board wrapped around the dome works well. As ever, it's the detailing that brings this to life: those couple of light flares give the glass a shininess all of its own. A neatly split head from tooquilos, willed with circuitry. I'd have made the near half of the head slightly transparent, though, to accentuate the glass feel; lowering the opacity slightly, or changing its mode to Hard Light, would have helped here. I really like Ben Mills' solution of placing those old screensaver pipes inside the head - a good computing reference, there. And they seem to fit the space perfectly, which must have taken some doing. A great sense of transparency, too. A very cute skeleton from Pierre, again with good transparency; the added blue in the head makes it much more glassy. One blue eye and one brown, eh? Are you a Bowie fan, by any chance? Have to take that hat off if he's going to fit into a mini... but the second entry really cracked me up. Fantastic! Intriguing wiring from pauline, with a great junction box (complete with screws) at the bottom. Those eyes are particularly subtle, and blend in very nicely. Very textural work from Dirtdoctor23: the circuitry makes a great brain, and those eye sockets make a lot of sense. Best of all, of course, is the lightning array, which adds tremendous depth and interest. And what a fantastic reflection! Vibeke has returned from her travels to give us an allegorical interpretation, with speakers for the ears, a megaphone for the mouth and a library full of books for the brain. The light bulb is a nice touch! But hasn't the bulb lost a fitting somewhere in the mix? The distortion in dave.cox's head adds greatly to the effect here, with those pinpoints of light looking like firing neurons. The top could have been stretched slightly to fill the cranium: there are flat areas around the edge that we shouldn't be seeing. But why the fuzzy edge on the head itself? A black background needed here, I feel! Fantastic fitting, both on the skull and the brain, from GKB - and there's a definite thickness to the glass on the cutaway that really adds to the overall effect. A very good choice of background, too, with a touch of Radial Blur adding a lot of life to the scene. And it looks like Dali had a bit of a hand in the second entry! I've always liked fireworks as explosions - and katew's entry makes good use of them. I like the circuitry inside, and the two Duracell batteries are a really nice addition. There's not quite enough distinction between the firework seen through the broken glass, and above it: we can see the broken edge, but not the glass itself. Mind you, this would have been tricky to fix, with all those flares coming over the top. A great choice of Simpsons image from Glen - and subtle filtering on the head to give it more of a drawn effect. Ay caramba! Some novel subtlety from michael sinclair this week: a good choice of constellation, which neatly matches the outline of the head. A shame, though, that the head is so far over to the right: I'd have liked to see what he's looking at! No glass head, but I really enjoyed the second entry! An excellent gag from 2bfree, made all the more impressive by the pump and circuit boards so neatly distorted within the head, giving a very real sense of glass refraction. And lifting the head off the ground somehow adds a lot to the scene. A complex, beautifully considered and immaculately created entry from Wayne, who's put a lot of thought and effort into this one. So much detail: the sliding jaw, the nearly-placed ear, the sparks going into the cranium, the wires waiting for an eye to be inserted - all very fine work. My only (tiny) criticism is that the angle of view of the head supports doesn't match the base of the head itself - but, hey, it's so minor it's barely worth mentioning. I particularly like the restrained highlight around the holes in the glass - very subtle. Dark, moody stuff from Dek_101: beautiful texture inside the head, with the suggestion of a skull and electronic connections that's not overdone. And is that Van Gogh's ear lying on the table? Very tasty work indeed. A fantastic gag, tremendously well accomplished, from Neal. It looks simpler than it probably was: I'd guess Neal had to find two different photos of Bush, and then colour match and size them to fit the space. The detailing in the thickness of the head, and the hair, are stunning! A very fine sense of transparency from Deborah Morley, particularly in the way we see the lightning background through the head. Great extra shininess, too, and a neat selection of coils and springs. The detailing of the copper connectors on the ends of the wires is excellent! A fascinating tutorial in refraction from BigVern: the deliberately difficult background is both rippled and distorted here. This must have been tricky! I'd have faded the background a little towards the edges of the head, to account for the thickness of the glass as seen from the side - but otherwise, this is a very striking image. Well, we've all seen ships in bottles... but Whaler's punning entry is something else. Best of all is the way the cork fits so neatly into the neck: the view of it through the glass is simply perfect. The second entry is a great improvement: the new water maps the shape of the head perfectly, and the stand adds a log of interest (although I have to say, I don't see how that stand's holding the head up). More surrealism, this time from vicho. The head has been beautifully ravaged by wind and sea here, and raelly looks as if it has been floating around for years. Well done getting the angle of the liquid in the bottle to match the horizon! I'd have added a ZigZag ripple around the bottle, though, to make it look more part of the water. An excellent newspaper parody from josephine harvatt, in which the head is turned into a kind of bowl. In all the gags and raged paper edges, it's easy to overlook how well the slips of paper have been slotted in here: but they all curve around the contours of the head, and the one poking out of the top is a great touch. A good gag from james, with a spot of good old WD40 acting as brain lubricant. The rather acute angle of the slice rather unnerves me here: shouldn't some of that gloop be pouring out? Hi-liter has given us a beautifully textured version, with a tremendous sense of transparency to the head and plenty of contents hinted at inside. The eyes, too, work particularly well here. Best thing about this one, of course, is the way the new chest and shoulders have been built to precisely match the original head: very classy work! A work in progress from celosia: a nice idea, but it does of course need to be finished. One issue that wil cause problems, if you ever do get around to working on it again: we're looking straight on at the head, but down on the hamster wheel. These perspective issues could cause problems later! |
Posted on 11/05/07 10:59:32 AM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 678 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Thanks Steve! _________________ Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up ... |
Posted on 11/05/07 3:34:47 PM |
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Wayne
Printer’s Devil Posts: 312 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
This was a lot of fun to do! Thanks, as ever, for the comments Steve. |
Posted on 11/05/07 6:34:06 PM |
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Steve Mac
Grunge Genie Posts: 539 Reply |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Good eye Steve, ... yeh, I meant that! Thanks, I knew there was something about the cutaway I didn't like. _________________ Steve Mac |
Posted on 11/05/07 11:34:06 PM |
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dirtdoctor23
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Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Thanks, Mr. Caplin, for the kind comments. I'm learning! (I think?  )_________________ "I haven't failed.... I've found 10,000 ways that don't work!" Thomas Edison |
Posted on 12/05/07 00:25:25 AM |
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celosia
Wondrous Woolflower Posts: 58 Reply |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
I did spot that, though to be honest I only just managed to grab a couple of hours last night to work on it and only managed to find a few pics on google images to use as I was getting very tired and just wanted to go to bed. I wanted to upload *something* as I promised myself I would work on these challenges... I plan to work more on a previous challenge too when I can find the time and energy (had an idea to develop the blocked up window one), and maybe some of the earlier challenges from before I joined. |
Posted on 12/05/07 03:05:11 AM |
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Tom
Texture Technologist Posts: 401 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Thanks for reviewing, Steve. |
Posted on 12/05/07 10:46:23 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2857 Reply  |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Thank you Steve. I really enjoyed this particularly challenge  |
Posted on 12/05/07 10:46:33 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2857 Reply |
Re: Contest 145: The robot head
Thank you Steve. I really enjoyed this particularly challenge |
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