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Posted on 25/07/07 05:07:19 AM |
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dave.cox
Marquee Master Posts: 518 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
You did a great job wrecking the shuttle Wayne. Your foot print problem intrigued me, so I thought I would give it a try. Not sure if I got it right or not, but here is what I came up with. First I drew a pair of foot prints in white on a new layer, and then used drop shadow. Then I set the layer mode to overlay, to get rid of the light, and reduced the opacity some. I made a row of copies in perspective by using Steve's perspective copy trick. Merged all of the copies to a new layer, and warp transformed to curve the path.  |
Posted on 25/07/07 07:28:40 AM |
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tocagni
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it excuses
it excuses, sends an error to me not like raising my work nor like erasing this. pardon again. |
Posted on 25/07/07 07:41:59 AM |
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tocagni
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I appear
I appear, I am toc, an honor to be able to particiar with you  |
Posted on 25/07/07 09:15:21 AM |
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Eggbox
Ovoid Opportunist Posts: 797 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Hi toc and welcome to the forum. What a great first picture. Ted |
Posted on 25/07/07 11:55:06 AM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 678 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
They've got parking meters there already!  _________________ Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up ... |
Posted on 25/07/07 12:18:19 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Big catch. http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/?action=view¤t=DeepSpace2.gif May take a while to wind up. |
Posted on 25/07/07 12:38:15 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1818 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
James that is truly clever, witty, and very, very funny: what a diamond!  |
Posted on 25/07/07 4:06:52 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Crumbs! You'd have to be crackers to land on this planet! Sorry another rush job in late... not so busy next week so hopefully better  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 25/07/07 7:35:26 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Michael, I appreciate your comments. Thank you |
Posted on 25/07/07 9:23:55 PM |
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Wayne
Printer’s Devil Posts: 312 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Thanks for the info Dave. The footprints certainly add another layer to the picture's story. They look good at the top of the slope and as they start down, and where they emerge from the shadow. Inside the shadow they appear to be 'floating' slightly. Maybe they need some additional shading? I definitely will give this a go, thanks for your help and thanks to Steve Mac who sent me a 'sample footprint' to play with. I probably won't have time to do this before the challenge deadline, but if I get a reasonable result I will post it in the Reader's Gallery. Wayne |
Posted on 26/07/07 11:32:07 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2157 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z206/friis-kiwi/Space-flight.gif  |
Posted on 26/07/07 11:24:35 PM |
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celosia
Wondrous Woolflower Posts: 58 Reply |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Landing on another planet is easy... it's when you get back to Earth that the fun starts...  |
Posted on 27/07/07 08:20:57 AM |
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char
Collage Conquistador Posts: 141 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
A little behind schedule for the challenge?   |
Posted on 27/07/07 08:34:11 AM |
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char
Collage Conquistador Posts: 141 Reply |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
And here the flash, I have the language outside as much running! http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r36/char_039/challegerglash.swf  |
Posted on 27/07/07 08:36:47 AM |
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tank172
ThreeDee Thriller Posts: 692 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Thought I'd toss one in the mix. Great images everyone! "What...erm, no comment," -NASA  |
Posted on 27/07/07 08:47:16 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6935 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
First to step off the lunar lander this week was Meltonian, with a splendid recovery truck: headlights, hazard lights, all beautifully recreated, with a neatly shaded (and shadowed) McDonalds sign in the background. Very atmospheric, if that's not an inappropriate word in this context. There's a problem with the perspective, though: the top and bottom of the truck point directly to the vanishing point, which is where the horizon should be. Raise the truck, or lower the moon! A fantastic animation from tooquilos, with the shuttle crashing into the only other vehicle on the moon while the earth's incidentally destroyed by an asteroid in the background. Great explosion, and Robbie the robot gesticulating helplessly throughout is a great touch. I like the little jump as the earth explodes. On a purely stylistic note, though, I've have had the asteroid and the shuttle coming in from different directions. The world tour in the second entry is a dazzling tour de force, with an astonishing array of detail: disappearing behind the statue's head and the columns of Petra, the shadow on the Great Wall of China, the hilarious second attempt at the Coliseum, scraping the surface of the lake in front of the Taj Mahal, before finally landing on the pyramid - Anna, this is astounding! You've even got the wheels popping down before it lands! Sheer genius. A real joy to watch, over and over again. A neatly distorted shuttle vanishing into a black hole from Kayla, with a good set of instrumentation on the cockpit view - "when possible, make a legal U-turn" - great gag! I'd really like to have seen the tail of the shuttle fading away as it disappears into the void, though, which I think would give it more of a sense of being sucked in. A retro reference from stefan, recreating the poster for the 1902 science fiction masterpiece Le Voyage dans la Lune (if you don't know it, Google it). A perfect rendering of the face, and I love the way the left eye is still half closed from the original rocket attack. And, of course, a perfect angle on the shuttle. Wonderful! The angle of rotation of the shuttle in mguyer's entry is perfect for making the shuttle appear to be coasting over the landscape. From the point of view of composition, I'd have moved the earth over to the side of the image; with it lined up with the shuttle like this it makes for a rather uncomfortable triangle that unbalances the picture. Great lighting from Steve Hill, whose subtle recolouring of the shuttle makes it blend in perfectly with the surface of the sun. And well done, remembering to take the wheels off! A really funny piece of work from Paul 2007, with the shuttle neatly slipped between the dome and the mast of Planet Hollywood. An extremely sparkly star effect, and great lightning - although, perhaps, it would have been better to have the lightning surrounding the shuttle, rather than just behind it? A novel approach from 2bfree, who's replaced his wheels with Harrier style jet engines - and why not, seems like a good solution to me. Except they do seem to be firing a little early - he's still miles off the surface. A wonderful gag in the second entry - and that shuttle's being held perfectly by the alien. I don't know what was in his hands originally, but it's been removed without a trace - excellent work! Either Ben Mills has been dabbling with 3D modelling software, or he's found exactly the right Ripple setting to make a perfect reflection. Well, nearly perfect: from this angle, of course, we'd see much more of the underside of the shuttle. But that’s just nitpicking. Beautifully grafted on floats look utterly convincing here, and the inclusion of Saturn in the background gives us the idea that we aren't in Kansas any more. Very fine work indeed, Ben. Looks like the shuttle in michael sinclair's post is escaping just in time: the crab nebula appears to be exploding behind it. The three frames of the shuttle in motion are a little odd, Michael: in the first it's coming out of the centre of the scene, in the second and third the motion trail shows it coming from way over to the side. Here's my solution: move the shuttle in the second frame way over to the right, so it's disappearing out of shot; then for the third frame, flip it horizontally as if it's looping round in front of us. Neat animated jets in the second entry though. An absolutely beautiful piece of work from Steve Mac, whose underwater shuttle blends in perfectly to its scene - and the addition of streaming air bubbles, the No Parking sign, and even the ripple on the surface where it's entered the water are just stunning. A real classic! And a great second entry - except somehow, the shuttle appears to be in front of the Enterprise, rather than behind it. A little big, perhaps? Also, don't forget to flip the NCC-1701... I love the Planet of the Apes references in the third entry! A really funny entry from Dirtdoctor23, with a tethered shuttle having just dropped in by balloon. What a concept, indeed! The only change I'd make here would be to the colouring of the shuttle: with all that brown haze, it seems a little too stark in comparison. Very neat little spacemen, though. And a great gag in the second entry - but couldn't that pterodactyl have done with a little texture? I'd also lower the opacity of the shadow a little for a more convincing effect. A funny entry from Abby-Helen Artfield, with rather endearing aliens apparently taking a space bath. They look hand drawn and scanned - is this your work? Very cute. And the hand created stars add a good cartoon flavour to the piece. A clever, funny and extremely accomplished animation from james: in the sequence where the shuttle's flying towards us, you'd never believe this was just one image, as the rotation together with the scaling really give it a sense of flying. And taking it in and out of shot is a really clever way of turning it around off camera, as it were: a well thought-out, perfectly achieved piece of work. And a funny second entry too! An intriguing frothstorm from Deborah Morley, as her shuttle attempts to land on a planet made of soap bubbles. And you can see why - it looks so much like a lunar surface, it certainly would have fooled me. Love the swoosh and spattering of bubbles over the top! A good idea that's been well executed. A funny entry from Wayne, whose shuttle has beached itself amid the sand dunes of some distant planet. Very subtle damage to the shuttle itself adds a lot of interest here - neat work. A really funny piece of work from Eggbox, whose shuttle has landed in a car park on - well, it must be Mars, look at the supermarket sign. And the recreating of the BBC news screen furniture is spot on. Excellent. A simple but affecting image from dave.cox: the blending and fitting of the shuttle into the boy's hand is perfect. I'd be worried about the structural integrity of the tail fin, though. An interesting solution to Steve Mac's footprint problem: but the footprints don't appear to follow the contours of the rather steep dune! Very good work from a new member, togani: the shuttles perfectly transformed into birds, blending into the feathers with great skill. The blur on the wing tips is particularly effective. And a great composition, as well. Welcome to the forum, Toc! I really like katew's idea of the shuttle landing by balloon power - and finding a parking meter already there. Great strings on the balloons, Kate - but shouldn't they cast a shadow on the surface, as well as the shuttle? Crackers, indeed - josephine harvatt has our shuttle landing on a planet built of them. Very good recolouring on the shuttle to match the surroundings - a shadow needed, perhaps? Is there a frame missing from vibeke's entry? That shuttle seems to be jerking back and forth, when it should be disappearing off the side. Some interesting colour variation going on here - I'd be interested to know how this was achieved. Excellent work from Celosia this week, with the shuttle hovering over a car park looking for a space. Tucking it behind the trees gives it a real sense of scale, and the translucent speech bubble and jokey typography are a perfect match. Helen, this is the best work you've submitted to the forum yet - and well deserving of a title for you. But what's it to be? Well, having Googled 'Celosia' and found it to be an edible plant also known as a woolflower (and whose name in Nigerian translates as 'make husbands fat and happy'), I think there's our solution: so Wondrous Woolflower it is. Fill-up time for char, whose shuttle is taking on a tank full of unleaded. What a great smoking alien! Did you draw him? And the coke cans and cigarette packets falling out of the shuttle are great. Some wonderful work this week. Keep it up! |
Posted on 27/07/07 10:30:58 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2857 Reply  |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Thank you so much Steve. The challenge, for me each week, is not so much creating the artwork, but coming up with ideas.
Thank you once again Steve. Great forum |
Posted on 27/07/07 10:42:31 AM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 678 Reply |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Oops, you're right Steve, I missed the string shadows! Thanks for great comment as ever. _________________ Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up ... |
Posted on 27/07/07 10:44:38 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2157 Reply |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
Thanks Steve, The colour was achieved using these three images, at the bottom, then 2 copies of the shuttle (one with motion blur) set to overlay. then planets and stars. At the top an other layer of the water colour set to color but only at 50%. I then varied the opacity of those layers for the different frames. You are quite right I should have had one or two more frames, but I was running out of time, and the file was getting very big.  |
Posted on 27/07/07 10:47:49 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2157 Reply |
Re: Contest 156: To boldly go
[quoted] tooquilos wrote: NASA Productions presents ......... Shuttle's 7 Wonders Tour!! Missed this one until i read Steves critic, wonderful. And of course I love my name on the Great wall. |
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