Hi
We've all heard, and probably used, the expression "a storm in a tea cup". I wonder what such a storm would look like. So for this weekend - I've provided the tea cup, or a least a 3D render of one, can you provide the storm?
As usual, anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Anyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
You are not limited to Photoshop. Any software can be used e.g. Illustrator, After Effects, Character Animator, Excel.... well maybe not Excel, although there was a discussion in the lounge on an artist who used Excel for images.
There are no prizes - just the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun.
When posting back your edited images please use jpeg and downsize to 1200px on the long side.
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Have fun
Dave
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'Render in Blender'? Now that's not fair because it is not so easy to rhyme with Photoshop. 
'Draw-a-lot with Photoshop' ?
Chroma-enshroud with Creative Cloud'? Stretching things a bit with that one, but they just aren't rolling off the tongue like they do with Blender.
Excellent water texture though Dave, and the teacup is sitting very nicely in its watery trough, and hey, I have just noticed that the biscuit is floating away. A tragic waste of a ginger nut. I'm starting to wonder if you actually exist in human form, or are in fact entirely CGI?
It will be handy for meeting up for a curry when you get to work at Weta Digital. It's a 20 minute hop across Cook Strait from me, and you can use me to model the next Kong movie. Blooming heck! I just had a look see, and this image is on the Weta VFX careers page. The obvious question is are they messing with our heads, and is everyone after row two real or CGI?
I know I don't exist, and Dag can't possibly be real. As for Jane, I mean who has a mountain lion as a pet? Yer wee man Ged lives at the end of his own garden, and wears a green suit so he does.
Terri is fooling no one. You must have noticed that there are no photographs in which both Terri and the Terminator appear together? Talk about Michael Jackson and sister Janet. Heck, Terri's name is practically an anagram of Terminator, and I know which one is more scary.
That's enough bizarre meanders of the mind. Jet-lag is a terrible thing.
You may jest Christophe, but this used to be our airforce. The six fighter jets sat on the tarmac encased in plastic for years before being sold to some even tinier nation than ours. Australia got the right hump about it, and you can't blame them.
We do have some helicopters and a bit of a navy, and we apparently have a very decent SAS force. This shows Willie Apiata returning from a mission (I think in Afganistan). Willie went on to receive the Victoria Cross which is no small thing.
One of the other SAS soldiers cropped from the above image (no hat centre) was killed fighting a forest fire near Christchurch a year or so back, when his helicopter crashed.
But, you are right in that we have a tiny defence budget. We do have a top secret Spy Base though, cunningly hidden at the end of Spy Base Road (that is not a joke).
A few years back (again) protesters breached the base security by walking through adjacent vineyards (a dastardly plan that was sure the fool the heavily armed security) and managed to deflate one of the domes by cutting it with craft knives. They claimed the dame came to more than a million dollars — you'd think they could find an old circus tent for way less than that.
Trevor.Dennis wrote
….. I'm starting to wonder if you actually exist in human form, or are in fact entirely CGI?
No I'm too old to be CGI. I'm more likely to be clockwork! 
Dave
With Dag, it's what lies beneath you have to worry about...
I have a strong inkling to finish the above sentence with 'Mr Bond'. Of all of us, he is the closest to Moscow after all.
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