Instant Fav!!..
Perfect lighting...
and love the dramatic effect

Looks very nice

Awesome Image ... Great work!

Good composition and very successful work, luck

I like your idea and work here.
The end result looks good.

I have my doubts about the vignetting, for me this doesnt add to the image. It gives me the feeling that the animal is beeing squished, instead of making it stand out. But that is a personal prefference.

Awesome, well done

Congrats Rob lovely work

Great image. Congrats!

I love your entry but it needs one more adjusting, the planet in source 8 is someone elses photoshop work and you cant use it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginedreality/170835601/in/photostream
also wheres the uncut photo of the girl? the on in the steps already has it cut.

I do love this image, the colors and the composition, the subject. its just fantastic great work and yes please do see this in highres its definately worth it.

OH THANKS ELADINE!!! I didn't even notice that, I'll get on replacing that planet right away! Also, I'll have to dig up the original photo too, I didn't save it unedited in the file I worked on. I may have to go back to the raw file and redevelop one.

And thanks Nator I might mess around with that a bit

I can just see this in poster format or in the postcard racks... you know those postcards with the special metalic printing? this would be so nice with that. beautiful work.

OH YES!! I know exactly what you mean about the metallic printing, that would be SO AWESOME!
Thanks again for your help! I ended up using the same moon picture used for the middle planets, to remake the one in the corner. I think it looks much better now anyway
Also I added the original pic to my SBS.

@ Nator, good suggestion, I made her a bit more "glowy" and added some more smoke and little glowing particles!

People should check out the hires before voting. It's really a treat at high res. Nice work as usual author!

Thanks pixelkid!! And yes I feel like this piece doesn't have the same impact in the smaller image as it does in hires

That's a wonderful image..love the idea and the result..hi res is a must see..Great job author!

well done ! fav!

Nothing much to say, fantastic as usual

Nicely done, author!

THANKS everyone!!!

gratz well deserved!

Congrats Rob , beautiful work

THANKS EVERYONE

Congrats for the gold!

THANKS!

This is probably the Red Queen's Alice Fantasy...
Goodness knows she cried, "Off with her head!" enough times - looks like she got her wish...

Great mood, well done!

Very nice work, though I must say, I like it with the rabbit, but final outcome is still good.

Wow looks fantastic, love the way you played with the fantasy attributives and the lights. Originality on the character's choice by excluding it's head :P

Haha thanks everyone and great point mossy I didn't even think of that I did really like the rabbit, but I just couldn't get it and the feet to look like they were actually on the ground realistically. Also I liked the framing better this way

the overall texture is fantastic!

superb, awesome, mind blowing!!! for sure my favorite.

The mood is superb. The blurred backdrop adds up perfectly with the overall scene.
@Author, Good thing you didn't include the rabbit. It's such a perfectly dark scene - a rabbit would've ruined it. :p

What a perfect mood and wonderful job!
I loved every detail! Instant fav!
Special mention to the theme!
Good luck author!

CREATIVE =)

Thanks everyone so glad you all like it!!!

nice work, my favorite, good luck.

Professional quality ... but if I was a paying client (and they can be wrong but they are always "right" I'd ask for the cards to be a touch lighter. Not only to add a bit of contrast but also because reflected light bouncing off them adds depth -- imo

Looks great....and great source!

Just AWESOME!..looooove it!!!
high marks,my fav and.. smells like a winner to me. GL

congrats, I thought the top three here were all very good.

Definitely the most unusual entry - and skillfully done. Congrats!

Congrats!!

Congrats Robert fabulous work

Congrats !!!

Wow, it's great artwork and very believable one as well. Thumbs up

WOW!..instant fav..good luck author!

Stunning, author. Beautiful & Believable.

thanks everyone! A LOT of work went into it, glad you all like it!!!!!

Cool techno horse

Thanks! I listened to the Tron soundtrack over and over while I made this, so it certainly is a techno horse

I think it turned out fantastic

Amazing work!! Very well done!

im missing a lot of the horse in the rflection on the board, for example the glowing eye and other glows on the horses body that i dont see back..

I definitely see what you are saying Eladine, good eye. But If you look closely they are actually there. When I blurred the reflection they were the first of the details to be Almost lost. Even the eye is there just harder to see because the smaller things blur out first. I did go back and fix it, and it does look better when you can see the details you mentioned in the reflection better, but I forgot this contest if closed so I can't re-upload it

Absolutely fantastic effects

sorry i didnt commented sooner then perhaps u can add it into ur profile after the contest is over..

Congrats Robert fabulous work

Nice Job Congrats on your Win

Looks stunning, i think the creature looks rather cute. The lower part seems to lack some detail compared to the mid-top parts. Amazing lighting as usual :P

Love the face..pretty sharp!..and beautiful mood.

my fav too..by the way

brilliant, very artistic, good luck author

Oh, very cute little creature!
Very well done. I love the colour pallet you used.

wonderful work

love it

SO PURDY!

Thanks everyone!!!

aweseome effect : its such a cute creature

Thanks you!!! Funny how you can take pieces of a totally NOT cute animal and make it sorta cute
and
@Akassa, there is definitely more detail towards the top. Partially because that is where I want your eye to go, and partially because it got really late last night and I knew I wouldn't have much more time to work on it, so I called it done

Thanks nator!! Took LOTS of painting to get the light to look like this

That is a great work....love the creature. Great imagination! Good luck author.

Thanks!
@marina08
Thank you as well! I can't take much credit for the color pallet, the source gave me my colors its a GREAT source image!

NICEEEEEE wish make like that, god job ....... thumb up

Beautiful colors!

fantastic.

Gorgeous creature, looks so innocent

Great transformation and painting, love the 'ears' and whiskery things.

CONGRATS

Congratulations....great entry

CONGRATS

Congratulations......beautiful image and cute creature!

congrats

congrats

Robart...great creature. Really great.

Congrats Robert terrific work

Thanks you everyone

littel late ( I was one a road trip) great work I simply love it!