OPEN BATTLE:: Roll Canvas Infinity

Welcome to the...
RollCanvasInfinity
(as discussed here)

Introduction:
RollCanvasInfinity is an endless 'Rollcanvas' style Photoshop battle. There is no long waiting periods, disappearing users will not effect turnaround time, and all anyone needs to do to contribute is simply put their hand up before submitting.

Basic Rules:
-Your submissions must be 650 px in length, and 400 px in height.
-You must submit your volleys as JPG (JPEG). To level the playing field, please set the quality to '10'.
-Submitting 'leave' images will not be necessary, simply post the full image in all it's glory in this thread.
-Your submission must be a right-side continuation of the last image posted. Please see other Rollcanvas threads to see how it's done.
-The intention is to connect all of the different users images to create one long mural image which everyone can say they have submitted to.
-Images containing sharp cuts in continuity are allowed, but discouraged. Please make the transition between your volley and the previous volley as smooth as possible.

Thread/Submission Rules:
-Your submissions must be attached to this thread. Discussion inside this thread is also welcome.
-Before you contribute, submit a 'heads-up' post to indicate that you are about to create a volley. Refresh the page (to ensure a double-post did not occur), and if you were the first to inform the others that you are about to create a volley, then you are now free to do so.
-If you do not submit a volley within 10 hours since your 'heads-up' post, then your spot is up for grabs, regardless of how half-way finished your volley is. If you require extra hours, please post the request in the thread indicating that you need more time (no more than a few hours). Please only resort to requesting more time if absolutely necessary.
-This thread is user-moderated. If a contributor submits in an incorrect format or resolution, please message the contributor and ask him/her to resubmit the image correctly.

Notes:
Please note that this is an 'open' battle, with no central management of any kind. That said, there is no 'big reveal' at the end. One kind user may decide to build a website dedicated to the RollCanvasInfinity to allow viewers to see the whole canvas in its seamless glory. That said, and since there is no central management, users are encouraged to save copies of all of the volleys in this thread on their hard-drives so that if one day a website is created, someone will have the series of images.

The starting image will be attached as the next post. Could some skilled playah's take the next few turns, just to show the newbies how its done?

Opening volley

Remember, imagine that your image will be placed seamlessly next to this image on the right hand side.

http://art.tafe.vu.edu.au/lhaillay/storage/fkp.jpg

Sweet job waste. Is someone going to maintain a page which has all of these together side by side? The template from the older ones should be around somewhere.

Thats up to our lovely contestants to decide, dric. Myself, I'm too busy... I'll probably end up checking this thread once every few months...

Also, ta for the props... using 3D primarily as a volley is somewhat experimental for me..

next please, but i need to do it afterwork.. so 12-14 hours, ok?

if no, let me know , thanks

Hi Jujo

Could you not request a turn just before you are about to start drawing up your volley (after work)? The chances of someone jumping in within the next four hours are pretty slim, and even if they do you won't need to wait long until their finished.

The idea of declaring turns immediatly before making a volley is to keep 'pause' times to an *absolute* minimum. Sorry to dissapoint Jujo...

no problem

ill check back here again later when i got more free time :)

booting photoshop now. :)

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to make sure all images are hosted at the same place, please use the following link/post to host your images for this 'event'...you can also use this for all your other arena images..

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=755493

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its finished, tried to upload to fk to no avail?

Hi Squid

Not sure what the problem is. Have another go uploading, and if still doesnt come up, just e-mail the image to me and I'll host it for you.

Needless to say, we're on standby until squids image is up...

Remember everyone: user moderation means everyone helps eachother to achieve the best end results, such as offering to host each others images if nessisary to avoid waiting times...

the waste (one word) at gmail

sent an email through to you waste! :) was fun participating

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Originally Posted by squidlips

its finished, tried to upload to fk to no avail?

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The images uploaded to the FK server must be approved by Planet first. He goes through and check's them everyday.

love that g rating. whats the drawback to anyone who abuses it is promptly stomped'n'banned? :lovers: not hating, just wondering

Damn, that approval time is going to seriously damage the volley return speed. I don't mean to complain about this service which is provided for free by FK, but the main reason of having this thread is so that people can jump in whenever they like and contribute to something huge and collaborative. Waiting an entire day for images to approve will mean that only one submission is allowed per day.

Maybe approved arena participants can avoid this waiting time and have some kind of instant approval?

squidlips
http://art.tafe.vu.edu.au/lhaillay/s...ackholesun.jpg

how about we personaly host our images, asnd once they are aproved go back and fix the url?

a mod would have to fix the url (assuming it's not within the hour or so permitted editing time)

host our own images? a lot of us dont have server space. or am I missing something?

and carly's right. post editing has become something of a problem ever since that new 'no edits after an hour' rule.

Flash Catch 22.

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Originally Posted by TheWaste

host our own images? a lot of us dont have server space. or am I missing something?

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could use something like photobucket?

The idea of using FK's server was done to make posts better after a couple of years. If you look back on an old post, there are several dead links.

Services like imagshack.us and other do a good job of hosting images and not changing URLs so they wont create this problem (hopefully)

Has the image been vetted yet? Then someone else can post.

so is anyone working on an image here? If not, I will go.
I will have to submit to FK for hosting though. So it will take a day. :(

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/149...horizonre3.jpg

What is a(t)? What are you trying to integrate?

(puts on smarty pants and grabs closest smoking jacket with pipe)

Well Jimmy, I'm glad you asked. The equation is simply the criterion for determining whether an event horizon for the universe exists. That is the boundary past which events can't ever be observed no matter how long the observer waits for light from those regions to arrive. It is also known as, "I thought it looked cool so I through it in."

Now you run along home, it's getting late.

(puff...puff...)

lmao

love: composition, concept
like: transition
impartial: colour banding and lack of texture on the right
dislike: type treatment

Thanks for the thoughts. I agree on the texture point, I just wasn't sure where to take it. I was trying to leave it open to move past the "deep space" feel.

What would you do different on the text? (Or would you use it at all?)

Definitely keep the text- the conversational nature of battles (ideas and themes) is something that good use of type can really make pop.

Looking at it now I would have just used a different background on the right and a big scroll through all your fonts, something that basically suited the combination or transition from space imagery to general relativity. Once you've got the combo right a few random details can sometimes just be good to lead the eye across the piece.

I love it on it's own, it's more just a transition thing... thats the beauty of roll canvas, seeing something followed through a few volleys in a really coherent way, even if some only stand to serve another.

Would love some crit as well :)