Cool idea Author and good luck to you.

Great concept and execution.

Absolutely very well done author ! Love the details here

great execution and fabulous imagination...very well done author

Really nicely done author!

great idea and very well done

nice thinking and chopping...excellent job

yes agree with the former comments,.....super well done creation.....

excellent work ,very nice ,good luck
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Absolutely stunning, love the colours, the magic feel about it and definately the little woody necklace lol.... my fav so far author

Hard feelings, I like it

Great idea and great execution

This one has a different concept, very creative and well executed. GL!

Here comes high quality entry as I said . Unique work and well executed bro! I love the design of the necklace thingy . Good luck

great .........

nice job, great manipulation skills, love it

superb work.....well done author

great job author !! good luck

Great job

wow..... excellent

Great image.

OMG...stunning work.

excellent chopping here, well done. and somehow, your username even fits the theme.

Congrats gamemastertips

Congrats!

Congrats for your first place! It's really a great entry!

Ben, congratulations!

Congrats, awesome work

congrats on the 1st winning,......well deserved.....

Congrats - well done puppetizing!

Congrats! for 1st place. Very well executed

Congrats on a very deserving first!

Congrats Ben! your win was easily foreseen

congrats nice work

congrats

Congrats Ben,well deserved 1st place...)

Congrats!

Congrats buddy! fantastic entry

Thank you all so much!! I never expected to get such great feedback....and thanks for the awesomely high score!!

Congrats!! Excellent!

congrats

Brilliant. Very well done, congrats on your win!

Good job, look quite convincing. Maybe you should change the shadow below his head a bit, because it's not round like that. GL

Thank you langstrum, I agree. I'll try to fix it within the next couple of hours.

Maybe just liquify the tip of his nose downward a tiny bit. Good concept to turn him around!

Good idea too, pearlie. Thanks! Will work on it.

Fixed! How is it now?

Hmm, quite better but not desired to me. The shadow should be more or less like that around his neck --> \/. About his nose, it's still not realistic, you can use the bloat tool in liquify to make the center of his nose tip (whatever, I don't know how to call) to be rounder. Just find an photo and observed the real nose than you can figure it out

Great feedback--much appreciated. I think I have an idea what to do now. Thanks again.

Pretty good, nobody thought of turning forward the man!

Okay here goes...attempt number 3. Altered the shadow again and fixed the nose (hopefully). How is it now? The bloat tool didn't work as desired so I blended it with another asian man's nose.

Good idea, but do something to alter the symmetry on the face, so it doesn't look like you just flopped it...otherwise it's a good image.

Thanks, CMYK. What would you suggest? Adding some assymetrical details to the features? I already did a bit of work on the hair so that it doesn't look too mirrored but I'm not sure what else to do. :/ This is my first try at attempting something like this.

Author, just play around...remove some shadows, etc...it shouldn't be hard to alter the symmetry.

Okay I get what your saying now. I fixed it up a bit. Any better now? Again, thanks alot for the feedback.

Yes, that's much better...good luck!

Thanks!

Cool

nice work --- has been interesting to watch this this one evolve

perfect ! --- completely different and nice work ! Good luck author !!

Very nice...good luck author

Congrats!

congrats !!

Thank you everyone!

congrats for 2nd

I like this a lot. Well done author

ver very cool

swesome entry and great SBS

That's dedication and the first time (as far as I can remember) that I have given full marks! This is soooooo good. Top marks for SBS also....

Nice play with the hands! Do you know chiromancy? Artists and creative people have your type (shape) of hands...
I just think left hand is a bit twisted in an uncomfortable position. But everything is very well blended. GL!...

Thanks Erikuri (And everyone else). Perhaps it may seem that way, but remember that this is the hand of a finger, not an arm. If you form a sharp arch with your index finger, it should look approximately like in the photo (aside from the hand attached, of course). And YES! I have heard of chiromancy. Thanks for the compliment. I play piano so perhaps my hands just evolved that way lol.

Very good work! really I like the mood of this work author.
The hat is really the finishing touch !

GL

great job..........

Love this guy...good job!

Creative work author

nice ! g l

Very clever idea. Well done. gl

Nice idea I like it

Fantastic job author...very neat and funny...well done

Very cool creation.

Congrats on a well deserved win!

Congrats for 1st

Ben, my great pianist, congratulations!

Nice work, congrats

Congrats for 1st .............

Congrats Ben,this is really great work,funny,neat and well executed...and of course,well deserved first place...keep going with great works...

Congrats!!

Congrats!!

Congratulations!

O w0w! you are so clever sweetheART pure magic lol! ;D

details are too good.great work.good luck

Thanks, raki!

So cute!

Great work...very well done

hahahhaa funny

Lighting situations dont add up here, makes it akward to look at good idea though.

Edit : There is just nothing about this that feels real, sorry.

Well then can you at least give me an idea what to fix? I ran into the same idea but I didn't know what to do. I just assumed it was alright since there's no clear direction of light source and everything has the same color and brightness.

Oh and "awkward" is spelled with a 'kw.'

Thats how i wrote it . There is shade @ the top of the camera and seems to get darker to the right, yet the shadow on the ground goes the opposite direction :P

Okay, fair point. I'll try removing the shade. BTW: Cheater! The edit feature is handy, isn't it?

Alright, I brightened the top of the camera. Any better now? You have to remember that I have no clue exactly where the light is coming from, as it could be coming from the back just as well as from the top. I'm trying to keep lighting as neutral as possible because of this, though it's hard considering that the camera is slightly over exposed in some places.

Sweet!

Yup looks better, nice job

Look great to me!

Congratulations on the top-three place!

Congrats!

Congrats

congrats

Thanks all!

Very very cute and well done.

Next time you can choose the option of publish my entry later... Once you finish uploading your SBS, you can publish without worrying

I think this is a really good job.. GL

Thanks Jello, thanks Langstrum. I'll remember that for next time.

great job!

Fantastic looking entry! Very well created.. my only suggestion, however, would be to remove the lensflare.. but that's just me. Good luck

Looks good except for the distracting lens flare...

Nice image and interesting UFO concept! Minus the lens flare just to beat a dead horse. :P

Nice work...UFO is well made...good luck author

Lens flare fixed! Thanks everyone.

So... that's the way the circles were made... (in your vision, of course!) Very well executed!

Nator, I tried but since the flare would be positioned from the top-left corner down (correct?) the weird orbs keep getting in the way of the crop circle...I'd like the flare, but it does somehow distract. Got any other suggestions? Thanks again.

Thanks for the tip! Will give it a try. I always had trouble trying to figure out a way to add a lens flare onto a seperate layer.

EDIT: Fixed. Looks any better now?

and here we go...... awsome work... GGLL

mystery solved.. haha.. really nice work author..

Great idea and great execution

I wish the ship had a bigger presence, because you did a good job on it. nice chop, tho.

Thanks pearlie and everyone else so far. I wish the ship had a bigger presence too...and I tried doing it at first like this as you can see in the SBS. I soon realized, however, that it looked nothing like a true hoax photo--no one would dare take such a close-up of a UFO. I could, of course, make it look like it was zoomed. Think that would make it nicer, or lose from the overall effect?

try adding a little haze to the spaceship to simulate distance

Haze? But it isn't foggy...? How would that simulate distance? You mean this along with zooming in, yes?

very clean work and nice composition.

fantasic work... should be on the top 3

i was expecting to see this kind of entry... great job, amazing work !

Is that a good or a bad ?

This is one of the most on theme entries I've seen. GL!

Thanks, joshua. Glad to see some people still go by the theme thing. I thought it just was sort of forgotten towards to end so I kind of gave up on it. :p

Well, crop circles are also believed to be a hoax, though unconfirmed. I also wanted to mention, nice touch with the date in the corner. I gave you high marks so I hope you place

congrats!

Congrats for your third place, Gamemastertips

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!

Congrats