Nice work, It needs more dynamic lighting.. may be painting white color in overlay mode with low opacity soft rounded brush will work..( On the red light), play around and look for the better result.. Good luck author.

EEEEEKKKK!!!! War of the Worlds! (the original) hehehe

Good imagination, nice and creepy with a touch of humor.

The aliens look great! I like the different expressions on their faces.
Good job and good luck!

Thanks Lelaina.

Woot!

Congrats George, Great improvement on the edits...

Thanks my friend, I am learning a lot from your tips....

Fun image. Steps 5-7 6 don't work. Looks pasted on.

What a fun and great Idea for this contest. Lovely imagination... (the bee as an eye makes me twitch because they scare the hell out of me) giggle snort

GREAT JOB!!!

Very creative! Love the bee.

Adding smoke is always so hard to do, you did a great job on that!

Congrats Randy!!

Congratulations Randy!

Sunflowers are well constructed, and the idea is good. The shadows need work...the final step is too dark with vague blurry shadows. Step 6 looks better, IMO. With a couple of small tweaks it could be your final image.

Made a big difference! GL author.

almost looks like a surreal monster head! Good luck!

Makes me look forward to summer... spring here and just 12C... brrrr

Congrats!

Thanks Bob!

Congrats George!!

Congrats!

Thanks....!

Funny...I had a similar idea! GL author.

That is cute. Good luck!

Well done!

Great one! Very funny.

Really funny but also a bit creepy.

Weird but funny, now I'm getting scared what to eat...

Congrats again!

Congrats one more time.

Congrats Rein very nicely done

Congrats again!

Thanks for the kind comments and congrats, much appreciated! Thanks to photogirl723 for generously contributing the source image!

Congrats again!

Looks like the light source is from upper right...you might want to adjust the shadow.

Ah - I used a portable flood light

Just flip horizontal the background, and the lights will be in the right place. The perspective of the shadows have to work with the light source. The image will look better if you do so.

Thanks - I've tried to reverse the background now

The shadows shoud be in the front. As a suggestion for your future work. Whenever the light source is behind or to the sides of an object, the shadow will always be on the back of the light, if your object is behind the light, it should be darker with a shadow at the front. If your light source comes from the right side, your shadow should be to the left, and viceversa if light comes from the left side, your shadows will be to the right. But try to work with perspective.... It is kind of difficult to understand, but if you check this link... you will understand.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oajh9Lgm8FE

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60vHSFlKu3c

Here are two different ways to cast your shadows....hope this help!