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Posted on 13/08/20 06:26:54 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2820 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Thanks Michael and Vibeke. |
Posted on 14/08/20 08:49:09 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
She's great! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/08/20 08:53:26 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Mariner, I see your new graveyard has Spike Milligan buried in it .......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/08/20 10:06:10 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2820 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Ah, David, I see you are old enough to remember the great man, brains behind The Goon Show. Yes, he requested that the inscription be put on his gravestone. Joker until the end (and beyond)! |
Posted on 14/08/20 2:10:05 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
I worked with him once when I was a very, very young camera assistant. He was unbelievably observant and spotted the tiniest of human foibles. People he was with, or strangers in the street. Nothing escaped him. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 14/08/20 2:24:58 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3726 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Milligan was, arguably, one of the greatest comedy minds ever. My introduction to his humour as a kid was through the supremely brilliant Goon Show and is probably where I discovered my sense of the ridiculous in life. Moriarty: There’s nothing for it, we’ll just have to learn to play the bagpipes. Gritpype-Thynne: That’s impossible - no one has EVER learned to play the bagpipes. .... and then there were the wonderfully surreal yet, in their own way, entirely logical conversations between Eccles and Bluebottle. I remember tears streaming down my cheeks when I read Milligan’s description of his Commanding Officer in ‘Adolph Hitler - My Part in his Downfall’. Genius. _________________  |
Posted on 16/08/20 10:27:46 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2800 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
http://vimeo.com/448214527  _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 16/08/20 11:56:51 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Sadly, link not working. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 16/08/20 12:05:18 PM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2800 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
try now David.  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 16/08/20 1:12:07 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Working now. Very odd video. Not quite sure what to make of it ......  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/08/20 08:45:50 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
A laser-eyed robot from lwc kicked off this week’s entries - with a fine pulsating ground. Love the smoke and sparks, and the red-hot tip on the sign. Some fun shaking in the second entry, and an interesting waving effect in the third entry - surprisingly effective. Beautiful lighting from Ant Snell, with a ghoulish figure breaking through the ground. You’ve got those highlights just right. Not sure about the red moon, though. A clever cutaway from DavidMac, the rabbit warrens perfectly explaining the uneven ground. I particularly like the way you’ve rendered the gras edge, showing the brown roots - very convincingly done. Ghostly fox hunters from srawland, and good to see them repurposed here. To answer your questions: yes, fox hunting has been banned here, and yes, some people do apparently still pursue it. As to farmers getting more good than harm from foxes - you should ask a chicken farmer. Plenty of ghouls from JimH, both ghostly incarnations and solid figures climbing out of the ground. I like the lone hand best. The ghosts on the right and left would look more like they’re coming out of the ground if the grass grew up in front of them, though. A beautiful sleeping giant from Josephine Harvatt, perfectly integrated into the scene. Just what every cemetery needs! And that’s certainly a mole that needs whacking in the second entry. I see Mariner has brought the gardeners in… a splendid reconstruction of the surrounding buildings - although I’m not sure about the added chimney on the church. Very neatly mown grass, and a good job Ms Hamlet was on hand to clean up the bones. A really funny second entry - great gravestones. A night scene from tooquilos, with added moon and gravestone. That jagged hole revealing the skeleton looks rather hard-edged for grass! I like the lamp and the crow, though. Terrific skeleton crawling in the animated version - but why doesn’t he crawl out of the hole and over the grass in front? |
Posted on 19/08/20 10:32:16 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2820 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Thanks Steve. Welcome back. I assume you are under house arrest again.
What added chimney? There is only one chimney. Please explain. |
Posted on 19/08/20 12:05:40 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4939 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
This week was more of an execution achievement than of imagination. Glad you approved. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 19/08/20 4:09:03 PM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6835 Reply |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Oh no you're right - it was there on the original! My mistake. |
Posted on 20/08/20 7:58:54 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2634 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Thanks Steve... |
Posted on 21/08/20 1:46:41 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 818: Uneven ground
Thank you, Steve. Chicken farmers are negatively impacted by Foxes but even they benefit from the foxes eating rabbits and rodents. But, that still doesn't change the fact that fox hunting via horses and dogs is a very inefficient and cruel way to control the fox population. _________________ I'm still learning. |
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