Good blend, but it might have been better if you transformed both of them.

woow.....congrats......!

Very convincing! Congrats!!

thanks CMYK46, dekwid n DanielaOwergoor

Great color match and blending. Very believable

thanks Nator, jbilitteri

you have me sold. it brings loving your lunch to a new scale.

Great blend on the neck! ;-D

Amazing, but I hope that will never happen in reality

thanks for all the comments

very clever addition of the texture to the body.. really helps with the blending GOOD LUCK!!!

blend is ok. suggest lift the wings up and show more of the wings at its origin (something like a flying horse)

I gotta say I watched Mega Python vs. Gatoroid the other night (one of those so bad it's good movies...anyway) Your graphic skills far exceed those of the MP vs G special effects team!

A bit too much white shine on the creature - tone that down, and this will be awesome!

thanks MossyB, i was thinking of doing that just did not find the time yet

wonder if that could be a 4th stage for Toadadile the Pok e' mon?

its sure isn't the 4th stage of pikachu

'Poke'... mon. XD

perfect expression !

easily a page from a science-fiction story book.. great idea...

you are great at finding appropriate 'people' (the goalie n the other guy) for this image

the sand-dune/mountain can be improved (look cut-out at the edges), should add sand-spray and Turtledile hits the ground

shadows of the men can improve (blur it)

asheman, thanks for your feedback.
did improve the shadow of the bottom man (the upper man is in the dune image and was my reference to the shadow).
about the dune, i looked at dune images as a reference and the upper border is very sharp, yet i smudged it a little bit.
about the sand spray, did had some before in front the Turtledile and strengthen it a bit a more as you suggested.

I like the overall idea even though, looking at the high-res, the blending can be a lot improved. You might take a small (3 pxl) soft blur brush, create a new layer (check the box on top: "sample all layers" and soften the edges. This way your sources will blend better. There's also a hard edge over the bird it self, you can get rid of that with a bigger soft eraser brush set to 20% and go over the edge multiple times. Might sound like a lot of work but it isn't and it will improve your entry lot.

ok fix

If you can't find the link you can't use the image.
EDIT: Good, you found the link! Now think about having the edges of the reflection conform to the ripples in the water.

cmy do you know the name of that bird ????? are you triying to help ???

Cool guy

Good blend, very funny!

IMHO you might want to darken the shadow under his feet a bit (match the darkness of the shadow on the lower branch, wonderful chop all round. I LOVE HIPPOs!!!

great work!!!

the red "feet" looks distracting...
suggest make the legs slimmer

quite a "hip" chop

More and more resembles my mother-in-law .

Thank you for your comments and votes.