Nicely done, good luck author.

Congrats well done

congrats

Congrats!!

This is the first time I finish on top... Wow!!! What an emotion.
Thanks you very much all of you for the congrats.
Will try to give my best in every contest I participate.

Mean machine! Nice work!

OOOOO VERY NICE! Great job

Thanks , I wish I had it.

love ur chop high marks

awesome

Awesome..high score!

Great! I love it!

Cooool. This is just cool. This is definitely the lead.

Love the colors and composition, cool swamp machine.

Great scene. It really adds to the image.

you could have added some massive guns on the car,haha, very good blending, good luck

What a Fantastic job..!Really cool man.

Congratulations for 3rd place, fantastic work

Congrats! I loved all top 3 pics...close call.

Good image. The car's kinda small for Buzz to fit in, wouldn't you say?

Thank you, Bob. There's actually quite a bit of leg-room in there, and with Buzz's hydraulics, he fits quite comfortably - tight but snug, like a racecar.
(And if I made him much smaller, he'd get lost against all that great architecture behind him!)

Great car!

If you shrunk Buzz and put him in front of the car, he wouldn't get lost against anything. Right now his head alone would just about fill up the whole front seat.

Logical suggestion, except that the purpose of THIS contest is to show a CAR manipulation, therefore the CAR is prominent here. I have studied art and design - and have legitimate reasons for how I treat the elements of my work.

I also studied art & design, and taught it as well. Hence my initial comment. Let's just have our own opinions and avoid another flame war. They're getting way too common. GL author.

Buzz seems awfully dark in comparison to the car and the background...He also shows an obvious cutout line on the left hand side, where he is lighter along the edge than the rest of his too-dark body.

The car is also lit from an entirely different direction than the background (Side on the background, Upper Right on the car...)

Thanks, MossyB, valid comment on Buzz's lighting, however it's not a cutout line, it's lighting from the left on him, which I've increased overall a bit, same on the car. Background image IS lit from upper left, as I see it - notice those highlights on the gold globes.

One of Us.. One of Us... One of Us.. giggle snort.. love the car author.. hate to have to back it up into a parking spot though (spikey bumper) LOL... boing boing boing.. extremely fun chop.. good luck author

Love the background!!!!

love it, i'd give the car some green color as buzz's, maybe the surface, also the shadow must be black, good luck

Thank you for your comment, orientallad. I think that for the bright but cloudy day, the shadow would be only moderately dark. Also, there is a reflection of Buzz's chest in the rear window, but he's not completely green, so I felt that was enough of him reflecting in the car.

Remember the toystory in a different way.Good thinkingman..

Sweet looking image! Just wish the SBS had some explanation along with the images. GL author!

It had a LOT of color adjustment, cloning, and painting, with a bit of "sketch" layers added for detail. About 40-50 layers, all said and done.

simply nice............ meow!

beautiful work..
but i dnt like the background author, looks weird.
just opinion

It's meant to be somewhat "impressionist..."

Not bad, buggy seems to be missing a handle knob judging by the angle.

Actually, it's a side view of a handle that runs horizontally. There is also the slightest bit of a vertical along the left edge of the buggy basket. If you check the source photo (#1 in the list), you'll see that it's the angle of the photo.

I really like the impressionist feel, it adds to the surreal atmosphere! Very good choice of animals, love the fish!

High mark! Good luck

What a baby!

He's a bit big for his age, but has a face you gotta love...lol!

This is just lovely! Amazing work!

Congrats!!

Congrats !

Mmm...what did you do with the background that it's so pixelated? Good luck!

Yea thanks I took a small picture and enlarged it I should have took the reg one on file..Hope this looks better

the drop shadows flatten the image out. you should paint in your own shadows as they would naturally be cast onto the ground. the cat on the right drops a shadow onto the sky, which is not natural. your entry is a fun idea but still needs to be tightened up a bit.

thanks I tried to do a little adjusting any better?

nice