best

hehehe.. lots of fun

Nice job! Would be good to see the source for the metal rims and a SBS so we can see how you made the figure & balloon.
EDIT: Oops, sorry author! I should have looked at the source pic again before commenting.

Cute. The face of the PXLeyes character on the balloon seems flat rather than following the rounded contours of the balloon, however.

the metal rims is from image given, wait for a while for the sbs...

Very nicely done and a good idea, I'm sure mistermonty would love this!

SBS is now available.... pls see

nice one

Love this entry. Good imagination and hard work. Good luck author.

Great idea

Great job on this, author.

Congratulations!

Good pic, but the hi-res is low res.

@CMYK46, hi-res is hi-res now, my mistake, sorry

Pretty cool idea!!..

Looks great in hi-res too...GL author!

Watch out for that head wind! hehehe.. very neat

Nice chopping, interesting concept, author!

Congrats for third......!

maybe a winner....great

What a cool idea! The heat from the bulb provides the lift! Great image, very fun. I'd love to see the sky full of these!

Oh thanks!!! and Mossy great idea, I might mess around with putting some smaller ones in the background when I have some time

Perfect!...

That would be cool, but I meant I'd love to see the "Real World" sky full of these!
If you add more to your image, just don't "cookie cutter" use the same one, okay? Better to leave it be than detract with clones...

~M

Wonderful work! This just yelled "fav fav" to me!

very steam punk... woo hoo... excellent work!

Stunning work

absolutely awesomme ...

Very fun and creative steampunk approach to this contest.

I don't get the mixture of taut cables (clearly supporting the gondola hanging from the balloons) and flaccid cables between the balloons and the gondola. And the small balloon's connection point to the gondola is very odd.

The horizon line of the balloon bottoms is down (albeit different horizon lines for each balloon) while that of the gondola is up.

Notwithstanding the title on source 4, I find the ship more wreck than steampunk.

Fantastic work author, my fav !

Wonderful work!

Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments its like getting a little present each time I see I have a new one

amazing work..!!

wow this is great author gl

good work man

Great job,instant fav.Good luck author

great image!

Impressive work, very well done.

Congratulations on a very well deserved win!

Congrats Robert awesome work

Cingrantulations beauitiful work

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Congrats!!

Congrats, great mood!

I love this one, IMHO too much light in the girl, I would try to darken her lights to match the "boat" and the rest of the composition. My fav, GL!

The balloon looks too small to support the basket and the girl. I'd enlarge it to look more proportional. Nice composition, overall, though!

as MossyB said, basket need to be much smaller... add a little saturation

can consider, but not necessary:
1) let the eyes focus at the front, make it bloated (budging or protruded) perhaps can use "spherize" .... as if to say that the eyes are going to explode with the balloon

2) make balloon bigger
3) his face turning blue with effort

Thanks aheman, your comments are very good and I think they would add a lot to my entry. Thank you