Unleash Your Creativity Side Challenge

01/08/2026 07:34:40 PM · #51

Originally posted by Barroness:

Nancy and Margaret, beautiful images! So glad you posted them. All are amazing and how wonderful that you shared them. So many directions to see beauty in.

Thanks, Debbi

01/11/2026 02:23:38 PM · #52

Originally posted by MargaretNet:

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Write about Architecture as I am a bit lost about the connection. Motion is more obvious. I like it a lot but I would not include the gun, that's my personal preference for many reasons.

I was using architecture in a non-literal sense, rather than creating something with buildings and physical structures, it was more the act of building the image, putting it together piece by piece, I had to assemble each strip of paper, paint splash, etc., it started to feel like I was really building something as I went along and as it got more intricate. At first I was going to use actual buildings somehow and make a collage around that, but that wasn't what came out or what I was interested in, so it was this instead!

Yeah I go back and forth on the gun because it's not anything I'm comfortable with and don't support, but it's the photographers work and I wanted to stay true to that, and it made me think about what the photo was about - is it meant to be cool and glamourous? I mean it clearly is, which I find insane. My added elements sort of play with that idea, the black and white bubbles attempt to soften and make fun of that idea, to almost stop the motion of the gun. Anyway, I think it's good to think about what it means and the culture around images like this, and be uncomfortable about it and talk about it.

01/11/2026 02:25:32 PM · #53

Originally posted by MargaretNet:

Theme: Holiday Tradition
Medium: screenshot from a 3D video set

Notes: It is a screenshot from the set I used to create my video Christmas 2024

Building this set involved modifying an existing winter landscape, adding outside table, deer, snowman, rocks and paving. Then building the house and its interior, decorating inside, starting the fire and finding a scanned sitting girl. Unfortunately I could not find one wearing winter clothes.

lovely, that was very nice, had a great cozy feel to it

01/11/2026 02:25:48 PM · #54

Originally posted by Barroness:

Nancy and Margaret, beautiful images! So glad you posted them. All are amazing and how wonderful that you shared them. So many directions to see beauty in.

thanks so much! :)

01/14/2026 11:29:53 AM · #55

Originally posted by kichu:

Thanks, Nancy. It is really interesting to read about your creative process. It is much more involved than I thought.

Did you post more images with descriptions? I thought I saw them earlier.

I am away from home till the end of January hence nothing new from me. I am trying to do something on the laptop but find it difficult.

Message edited by author 2026-01-14 11:31:03.

01/14/2026 11:38:52 AM · #56

Originally posted by MargaretNet:

The current list of challenge themes to Unleash Your Creativity

Reflected Self
Motion
Photoshop Terms
Craftmanship
Symmetry in Nature
Holiday Tradition
Weeds
Outside the Box Still Life
In the Style of Martin Parr

Adding:

Holiday Tradition
Photo within Photo
Cultural Plates
Edges

01/14/2026 01:32:32 PM · #57

Originally posted by MargaretNet:

It can be very involved for sure and it sparks a fire in me most times! I love it :)

No I didn't post anything else. Back to work now after the holidays and busy and no time for art. Boooo. :(

Hope you're doing something enjoyable during your time away.

01/14/2026 02:00:10 PM · #58

Originally posted by kichu:

...Hope you're doing something enjoyable during your time away.

Yes, I am, skiing !! :)

PS No idea where I got this passion from. I was born 600km away from the nearest mountains!

Message edited by author 2026-01-14 14:12:48.

01/14/2026 02:27:29 PM · #59

Originally posted by MargaretNet:

Originally posted by kichu:
...Hope you're doing something enjoyable during your time away.

Yes, I am, skiing !! :)

PS No idea where I got this passion from. I was born 600km away from the nearest mountains!

ohhh that is fun, enjoy enjoy! maybe the activity will spark some creative ideas for your videos!

01/19/2026 12:07:09 PM · #60

Since it is just two of us on this Side Challenge I thought I will change the rules again and make no restriction on the challenge theme as long as it is not currently in voting. Any past DPC theme can be used as the subject and inspiration. The way to find themes is to look at Challenge History and use the browser's Search to find themes to Unleash Your Creativity! :)

01/19/2026 12:36:54 PM · #61

Theme: Animals in Motion
Medium: video
Duration: 27s

The Squirrel Explosion

Notes: We went on a local winter hike on Saturday when the visibility was too poor to ski. We walked up to the bird feeder house and we were shocked! The ending of my previous squirrel video from last year proved to be visionary! There is an explosion of squirrels feeding on bird food! They are everywhere doing acrobatics to get to all forms of bird food. At the same time they are very playfool, I guess the bird food makes them happy ;)

Captured on the Iphone, edited in DaVinci Resolve.

02/01/2026 12:10:41 PM · #62

Theme: Fantasy World (from June 2005)
Medium: screenshots from a 3D fantasy world

The Flying Fantasy Town

The Main Characters:

Supporting Cast:

Notes: I was looking for escape from the current reality and this is it. A fantasy world inhabited by cure characters :)

02/10/2026 04:08:00 AM · #63

Looking through the hobbies of DPCers I am no longer surprised about the lack if interest in this Side Challenge ;)

02/12/2026 11:14:30 AM · #64

Theme: Fantasy World
Medium: video of a title sequence created in a 3D fantasy world
Duration: 88 seconds

Skyville

Notes: I got this Flying Fantasy Town set when it was free on Fab Marketplace. A truly fantastic asset. Later I got the little girl and recently a bunch of cute animated characters.

I made some modifications to the set, added lights and Volumetric Sky, placed cameras in the best places on the set, positioned the characters, and then started to think about the title and the names of characters. For some reason they all finished to start with the letter S - Stella, Sparky, Sizzle, Snappy and Swish living in Skyville. Next I thought about the title sequence and did a flythrough of the town to show that it is indeed in the sky, then filmed the introduction of the cast of cute characters doing silly animations :)

I really wanted good music to go with it and I found it! I contacted the French composer and he let me use his music for free! I was really happy with that. The link to his Youtube channel is in the description.

Finally I put it all together in DaVinci Resolve.

To be continued. At this stage I have no idea what happens to the characters next ;)