Good treatment of a subject that's been done badly so many times.

I like this image a lot except theres hardly or none play with lights or shades on the building on the front/big floating isle while that captures ur attention the first. It makes it look a little flat. Perhaps you can liven it up somehow that building. I will put it on my favs anyway because its a very nice image. well done.

this is really well done..i see you put a lot off effort into this and so many source images merged together....the only think i'd try to work on or get rid of instead is that lower right statue of angels. or add some soft cloud brush over it or burr it a bit to give a DOF view.

other than this, one of my top piks

good luck

I like the variation of island bottoms! Perhaps if you darken a few of the highlights of the further island bottoms...it will vary it even more! Nice work, author!

This must have taken some time, the results show it.
That one balloon that's exactly centered behind that tower is a distraction from an otherwise great piece of work.

thanks for the feedback i agree, some tweaks here and there will improve the image, but i ran out of time... actually i started with this some 20-24 hours before the deadline, so i didn't had time for some adjustments..well, i have to be happy with what i got

and here is small WIP ...

http://s6.postimage.org/q0de4nt6p/fantasy_wip.gif

Great job and win !!

Congrats!!

Congrats !

Congrats, very nice work

Congrats

Congrats!

great job and well deserved win...congrats

great work, well done

Nice idea! Great execution.

really fantasy ....99.999999999% just not to say perfect

Very astonishing!

Love this work!
IMO It's so perfect in every detail!!
Instant fave!

Very well done!!

Looooooooove it!!!!!

Just great! love the atmosphere and the overall idea, clean and creative, good luck!

i like it, nice work

wow very cool one

This entry has a great surreal feel to it. If you varied some of the tones or luminosity of the figures on the left group of four more...I think it would help make it look a bit more random. The grey background is cool and really gives a nice contrast to the scarce green grassy areas.

Very nice!

This is a fav!!

easily my favourite, wish I could point something out to improve on but I can't seem to ... wait, I foundsomething ... the pavement seems more blurry than the adjacent grass in many places! That's an easy (and minor, if even necessary) fix

Congrats Abe!!

Thank you very much for the votes and comments

Congrats!!!

very nice high score

Surreal and cool. Very nice job author!

I am delighted, author!
A different style of surrealism, is very beautiful and very well done.
Good luck!! I hope to be top 3!

Correct link for source 2 is: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=420418

Cool looking elements and great idea!
A bit busy in my opinion but it seems that could be improved by unifying the composition with more harmonious colour
... the snake-like building on the right is cutting through the top cloud a bit too sharply compared to the way the clouds are behaving around all the other buildings

Congrats!!

Congrats!!!

Been there, done that.... SQUIRREL!!! ... hehehehe (really awesome job )

I'm really liking this! The other cities further down is a nice touch. Great job, author!

reminds me of that old game Myst good luck author

its a great peace of art with many details...i can tell you put some efort into this...i'm just a bit doubtfull about some lighting issues and prespectives...but then again, it can just be my monitor that is distorting it a bit. good luck

Definite perspective & lighting issues, but it's a great idea.

good idea - the actual buildings look pasted on though - suggest slightly blurring edges, adding strategic shadows, and unifying the colours a bit (making the brown in the stone walls a bit greener)