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Posted on 13/06/07 09:15:19 AM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
vibeke, it looks great moving BigVern, that's a dream, wonderful. |
Posted on 13/06/07 1:13:33 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 678 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
This one works well in greyscale, too:  _________________ Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up ... |
Posted on 13/06/07 1:14:59 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 678 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
And a simpler idea (idea courtesy of my husband, work by me) ...  _________________ Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up ... |
Posted on 13/06/07 10:04:12 PM |
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hi-liter
Pastiche Painter Posts: 108 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Wow... some really nice entries! David's looks like something I'd see over at W1K, and being a mac user... really liked Tom's animation! And KateW's banner, really nice design! Mine is currently over in Image Doctor seeking some diagnostic help... may make it in time... (but really not a logo... so...) _________________ Drawing attention to what otherwise might be overlooked... emphasizing things that matter. |
Posted on 14/06/07 00:15:29 AM |
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Tom
Texture Technologist Posts: 401 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Slightly updated.  |
Posted on 14/06/07 09:11:50 AM |
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stefan
Detail Demon Posts: 401 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Will work on my animation skills........later   |
Posted on 14/06/07 1:29:26 PM |
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Babybiker
Shadow Spectaculator Posts: 151 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Been busy with a new job over the last few weeks, so not had much time for the forum - sorry! Thought I would spend a little time on this one though (but only a little). Animation was never a strong point, but you get the idea...  |
Posted on 14/06/07 1:39:33 PM |
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stefan
Detail Demon Posts: 401 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Just in case someone was wondering.....WHY?!!.....this is the image my entry is based upon.  |
Posted on 14/06/07 3:36:49 PM |
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celosia
Wondrous Woolflower Posts: 58 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Sorry, no animation from me, I have less than 48 hours to prepare for an interview for a design job, and it sounds as if there's a lot of applicants...   |
Posted on 14/06/07 10:12:19 PM |
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Wayne
Printer’s Devil Posts: 312 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Struggling to find time this week. Sorry, can't compete with the excellent animations on here. New logo (Thank you to Anyhoo at Flickr for the use of the original image) 
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Posted on 14/06/07 10:14:16 PM |
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Wayne
Printer’s Devil Posts: 312 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Unbelievable how quick these counterfeiters get their shoddy goods onto the market! (Thank you to Matti Vesterinen at Flickr for the use of the original image) 
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Posted on 15/06/07 00:16:23 AM |
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hi-liter
Pastiche Painter Posts: 108 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
LOL... Thanks Wayne... actually made me laugh out loud! 
*edit After some further tweaking from Whaler's and the other forums' help, it's as close as I can get it for now... 
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Posted on 15/06/07 08:40:56 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6935 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
This has been an interesting Challenge: more design focussed than a test of Photoshop skills, and it's produced a great variation in approach. First on the running track was tooquilos, with an animated disco version of the logo. Reassembling those elements to make a human figure has worked really well, and those Olympic rings are perfect for hair! I'd really like to have seen that mirror ball rotating, though. Any takers on how this could be done? It seems Ben Mills isn't impressed with the amount this logo cost. His 400,000 pounds neatly slips down the drain that conveniently appears for it. I take it you're not a fan, Ben! Michael Sinclair has linked the five gold rings (hang on, isn't that a Christmas carol?) with the face of Big Ben against a Union Jack backdrop - giving us a strong London flavour. Did you add those hands separately? We could have had them spinning! Great flames from dave.cox - who clearly doesn't like the logo either. I like the idea of the Olympic torch flaming the numbers, and the sombre black rings have a suitably funereal look to them. It must have taken vibeke ages to cut out that London Eye and turn it into a complete circle: I've cut the thing out a couple of times myself, and I know what a fiddle it is. The images inside the circles work well - but are you sure a serif font works best with that strong bevel and shadow? The thin uprights on the N seem to get lost in there. When applying effects like this, you really need the strength of a sans serif font to carry it off. A fine animated version! Dirtdoctor23 has obviously taken the whole epilepsy allegation to heart, and gone for a solution that's likely to cause seizures in even the most resilient of viewers. Not sure at all about that lettering, Neil! The first entry in the spirit of the original comes from 2bfree, a feast of flashing colours and animation. The appearance of the plant cell structure background halfway through slightly confused me, but overall this one has a lot of life and interest. An excellent finale in the second entry! A rather sophisticated entry from vicho - I particularly like the physics of the rings bouncing off the bottom (complete with deformation, nice touch) and then rising to form the Olympic rings. It works particularly well in the Flash version; interestingly, the GIF version has so much compression on the background it looks more like the Loony Tunes ident. Are we making a point here? Plenty of dancing animation from James: I like the fact that London stays the right way up when the design flips vertically. A little restrained on the colours though, James! With over 60 million to choose from, you stick with two? Plenty going on in the second entry - I particularly like the pulsating earth. But the rate at which that wheel is spinning - it's supposed to be a slow, gentle ride! A well-drawn stamp from Eggbox, with neaty intelinked lettering and an O that doubles as a 0 (depending on the font your browser uses, you might see a subtle difference there). I like the way the letters of London hang together, and the stamp metaphor is a good gag, too. It's rare that David Asch enters the Friday Challenge these days, but when he does it's worth the wait. This is a beautifully achieved piece of work, with the rings looking thoroughly photorealistic on the Gherkin. Everything about this - the shading, the shadows beneath, the light direction, the masking behind the foreground buildings - perfect. I really like this one! A classy piece of design from GKB: the Olympic ribbon winds neatly through the lettering, with subtle shading to give it a three dimensional quality. The only thing that's missing here is shadows: from the 2012 on the ribbon, and from the ribbon on the 2012. Like the animation! To answer your question: creating a wipe on the ribbon is straightforward. Make a layer mask for the ribbon, filled with black (so nothing is seen); then unlink the layer from its mask, and nudge it to the right on successive frames. A first animation from Deborah Morley - good to se this Challenge has inspired so many of you to get moving! The curves in the flag make it far more dynamic, it's a great reinterpretation. And the gold 3D effect on the rings is excellent. And to answer your question: the easiest way to preview a GIF after you've created it is simply to open it in any browser. Sheer genius from BigVern: having the head turn into one of the rings is good in itself, but making the face and body from the letters of London and the date is a masterstroke. And so neatly animated: that must have taken a while to achieve! The inclusion of the London skyline in katew's entry makes a neat base for the flag, and the inclusion of the Olympic torch is a novel idea - even if it does look rather too similar to the old Conservative Party logo for comfort. I'd say the lettering's a little small, though: if it had fit either side of the torch you could have made it a lot bigger. A very satisfying second entry though. I take it Tom's not too impressed with the logo either - his spins into oblivion and disappears in a puff of smoke. But tell me - how did you manage to capture all the frames from the puff animation? It does make a good ending. We've all seen sporting posters that feature atheletes leaping over buildings - and stefan's take on this is just brilliant. Not just neat breaking of the upper gallery of the bridge, but the section crashing into the Thames works a treat. And what a great angle on that athlete! How on earth did you track that one down? Great work, Stefan. A clever piece of animation from Babybiker: the way each character changes one at a time is ingenious. Apostrophe's the wrong way up in "I'm", though - sorry about that! A vibrant entry from celosia, with a well chosen font that does service both for the lettering and for the Olympic rings. Seeing as you're going for a design job, I feel I should point out that the lettering gets a little lost against the identical colour in the map: white outlines could have sorted this one out. Best of luck with the interview! An interesting approach from Wayne, showing us his logo in place on a banner. A very well designed, stylish logo. A couple of points about the banner, though: we have to assume it's white, in which case seeing the white of the logo brighter than the background is a little odd. In cases like this, I always set the logo layer to Multiply, allowing the original to show through. And if you're going to use the Texturizer filter to the banner, you really need to distort it to the correct perspective! Just nitpicking, I know, but I thought you'd like to know this stuff. I really admire the marketing examples in the second entry, though: very classy work indeed. A great idea, beautifully achieved. Tasteful stuff from hi-liter: I love the shadows, especially the way Olympics reflects as London, and the silhouettes in the rings. And the tree planting metaphor is a good one, too. Inspirational work! Many excellent entries this week - and it's particularly gratifying to see so many of you having a go at animation for the first time. There's no way I can pick an outright winner, so you're just going to have to share the four hundred thousand pounds between you. Oh, hang on a minute, it's already been spent. Sorry. |
Posted on 15/06/07 09:51:25 AM |
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stefan
Detail Demon Posts: 401 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Hi Steve, Thanks very much. Tracking down that image was a bit of luck I guess. Did a google image search...difficult thing is of course what to type in exactly. After many combinations I tried "steeplechase falling" , went on automatic pilot, and at last on page 12 came a small picture of Sally McLellan falling, but it wasn't the right angle. Then typed in "Sally McLellan" and there it was smiling me in the face. just had to flip it. Have a nice weekend.   |
Posted on 15/06/07 1:40:11 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 678 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Thanks Steve. I never thought of putting the lettering further down - doh! _________________ Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up ... |
Posted on 15/06/07 3:32:36 PM |
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Wayne
Printer’s Devil Posts: 312 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Thanks hi-liter, glad it made you laugh!
Absolutely Steve, constructive criticism is as well received as praise. You seem to be able to see in a flash what most of us wouldn't register if we stared at an image for a week! Thanks. |
Posted on 15/06/07 3:34:40 PM |
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Babybiker
Shadow Spectaculator Posts: 151 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Thanks for the comments, as always Steve. I'm not sure what happened with the apostrophe. Been back into the original file and checked the font - Arial regular, and it seems to happen everytime, but only in PS, not in Word etc... Strange! BB *edit - further digging around shows that this happens with EVERY font - but only on the "odd" apostrophes - the even ones are all the right way up. Seems as though PS thinks that they should be treated like single quote marks. Is this a general bug in PSCS1, and is there anyway around it? |
Posted on 15/06/07 4:34:59 PM |
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hi-liter
Pastiche Painter Posts: 108 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
Well... this being 'how to cheat...' forum... there may be a way to fix that, but generally I simply put it on it's own layer and then flip it around (do this with sub-text/super-texting as well...  ... put them on their own layer, that is!)
Thanks Steve for the comments and glad to hear about the shadows, the input from Whaler helped improve them from what I had originally...
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Posted on 15/06/07 5:16:44 PM |
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Whaler
Visual Viking Posts: 330 Reply  |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
hi-liter, I'm glad I could be to your assistance! _________________ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted on 15/06/07 7:11:27 PM |
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celosia
Wondrous Woolflower Posts: 58 Reply |
Re: Contest 150: London 2012
I did actually consider using white on the text. The other things I could have done, seeing as the lettering overlaps the white background, would be a pale blue outline, or fading the map a little so the lettering stands out more. |
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