{"id":243,"date":"2008-09-19T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/archives\/243"},"modified":"2022-06-09T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:51:07","slug":"napp-battles-weeks-131-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/napp-battles-weeks-131-133\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPP Battles Weeks 131 &#8211; 133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe I haven&#8217;t posted since 24 August&#8230;  Well actually maybe not&#8230; I lost a harddrive in there right before Labor Day Weekend&#8230; No data was lost &#8211; luckily I regularly backup&#8230; but it did take awhile to get things back up and running smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battle 131<\/strong> started with:<br \/>\n                  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1065355\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/1065355-party-time.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\t\t        <\/p>\n<p>I rendered some cylinders in Illustrator and then set the image as the surface to come up with with the fireworks. The wicks were made with a custom brush I created in Photoshop and the fire was simple painted:\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/burianek.com\/napp\/Battle131Fireworks.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[Battle131-133] noopener\" title=\"Battle 131 - Fireworks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/battle131fireworks.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there was <strong>Battle 132<\/strong>&#8216;s starting image:<br \/>\n\t            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/968876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/968876-flowers-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used the pen tool in photoshop to trace several of the front petals and then took 3 of the petals and morphed them into a butterfly wing. That was then duplicated and rotated about the horizon to create the butterfly&#8230;  <br \/>\n                  <a href=\"http:\/\/burianek.com\/napp\/Battle132flowerbutterfly.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[Battle131-133] noopener\" title=\"Battle 132 - Flower and Butterfly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/battle132flowerbutterfly.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally,\tlast\tweeks (Battle 133) image was:<br \/>\n                  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1018702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/1018702-kalmar-castle.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The framing on this was created using another image from stock-exchange of a bamboo ladder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/burianek.com\/napp\/Battle133IndianSandstone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[Battle131-133] noopener\" title=\"Battle 133 - Indian Sandstone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/battle133indiansandstone.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\n\t            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe I haven&#8217;t posted since 24 August&#8230; Well actually maybe not&#8230; I lost a harddrive in there right before Labor Day Weekend&#8230; No data was lost &#8211; luckily I regularly backup&#8230; but it did take awhile to get things back up and running smoothly. Battle 131 started with: I rendered some cylinders in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[11,9],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}