Nice job on the water.

I was busy this weekend and voted on the Island contest. I was going to take my time Sunday and vote on the Boots contest but I got involved with something else and forgot to vote on it. My bad. I would have voted your entry the highest and I have an over 5 voting power. So it probably it skewed the voting. Am happy to see that the boots contest at least had 4 good entries.

Wow a 48.1%. I am out of here. See you guys.

This is a well put together chop, lots of imagination and work put into it. Be that as it may, there is something about the shadows bothering me. Specifically the tones and consistency. It seems to me that those gun turrets, the ropes from the balloons, and the side of the ship need some shading. Also, I'd think there would be some shadows cast onto the fog from the different elements in the scene.
I like the mood you're trying to set, a few tweaks would bring it over the top IMHO.
Good luck.

I really like the surreal dream like quality to this chop and I'm not so sure about shading because without it the end result is otherworldly. It is only an opinion on my part.

I read you SBS....HOLY CRACKERJACKS you need to get paid! HELLO ADMINSTRATION ! ! !

Thank you so much for being here, you are another great teacher.

It should sell well.....naw, I usually say "crap".

Play with the levels and curves maybe.

Congrats BW

Congratulations.... good job

Congrats!

Please fix links 2 and 3. They don't lead to images. The background looks like an illustration and wouldn't be useable in any case.

Ok fixed the 2 links, should be able to see all sources now.

As I thought, source 3 is a render, and not useable. When using DA for source material, always use this link, which will take you to the stock section. http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/resources/stockart/ Even then, some images will be renders or premade backgrounds, which are not valid sources. You have plenty of time to find a useable background and revise your entry.

Ok thanks

Author, please link all sources to the page that shows the copyright and usage information, not the download pages.

All right changed it, let me know if anything else needs changed?

Thank you for fixing this

No problem.

Maybe have the exhaust shooting out from an external sourced rocket engine or even an engine from a fighter jet. Perhaps you could mask off the boat's engine to resemble one. Also the windows of the cockpit are blue and the sky is black in your Chop. That's an easy fix. Just "mask out" the blue parts of the windows. Then in your "Mask Properties", lower the "Density" a bit to allow some of the winnow to show through. You may or may not have to mess with a Hue/Sat adjustment to darken the Blue color of the windows. This way it will look like there is some glass in the cockpit, but it will be see-through and you will see the black sky behind it. The bottom of the boat is white. You may want to color it orange so the rocket color looks more consistent.

Hi BWR, thank you for your helpful pointers on the adjustments, let me test out and see what i can do about those things.

I changed the cockpit window to have the space background and added colour orange to the bottom of the boat, but still wanted to keep the engine the same from the boat to give that parody of the difference from a boat scene to a space scene. Hope you like it.

I really like what you have done here, particularly with the flaking paint texture, however I feel the dark lower section of the hull looks a little odd because the paint isn't flaking.

It's better but, I think if you followed the curve of the timbers rather than the painted dark section it would be more effective.

Where's Johnny Depp? hehehe.. great job

That looks much better

Congrats on third place

Congrats!

Congrats Angel!!

Oh dear Great job

congrats on scoring... Girl Over Board!