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it is a zip pack that includes more images. if you want you can check

Beautiful entry author, Good Luck! Love it

Background is well done, is that extrude?

Beautiful work, the girl looks like a helpless wandering soul

i love it ,good luck

The background is very cool. I never really knew what to use that for, but this is a great use for it.

Very nicely done. You may want to look at the bird source though, it appears to be copyright. Change that and you will have a very nice entry that will remain in the contest. It would be a pity to see it eliminated.

Thank you!
ow yea didnt notice that.. is it still a copyright abuse if I didnt actually use the picture but just made a selection of some of the birds and filled it with black? I dont quite know where copyright begins and ends.
/edit: Fixed it, it should be okay now.

awsomeeees

You still have an issue with those birds as that image requires to be purchased to be used. You need to search for a free stock image. Use the "Resources" tab at the top of the page to take you to allowable sources. This link will also help http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/

Nice work. Author you can also use this flying birds brushes for your work.

http://www.brusheezy.com/Brushes/1473-Bird-Photoshop-Brushes

I did it with the brushes now, its not easy to find free birds silhouettes.
Thank you all!

lighting and blending are very well done

great job

very very nice work...100% convincing creation...well done

Great I love it!

Thank you so much guys (:

Great job. The mood really sets it apart.

The mood makes the house looks even creepier, so good job!

2nd Place!!! Thank you all so much, you are awesome. (:

Congrats for your second place, Lukas!

Congratulations!

Congratulations, for 2nd place

congrats

Good work author,nice composition,cat in the car is maybe to big...

great one. i like the vintage effect! GL

Looks good, the selction on the cat by the call box could be better, but the rest is nice.

good job author.gl

cats are almost hidden... which makes the HIGH res such a wonderful surprise.. good luck.. fine work

wow nice effect good work, GL

cat in the car is huge

looks nice! gl

love the mood! Great image

Oh, great work! And all the cats are so sweet

Congrats, really nice work

Congratulations for 1st

Glückwunsch zum ersten Platz!

Congrats

like the fire cloud effect -- think it looks a bit flat when your eye sees the sharp edge where it ends

very nice color scheme and lighting

Nice and there is some impressive lighting too.. Fractal lava? Ok, I think you need to fill in the gap where the eye 'was' to give the mask a full back so to speak. If you follow me.. You can see it clearer in step 5. There is no need to cut the shape out for the right eye. Just continue your line down..

great!!

Standing ovation for the work.. really put a ton of heart into this creation and it is marvelous in my eyes.. (went all Queen Elizabeth on ya author.. hehehe.. sigh.. I read too much LOL)

Truly great work! Really like the lighting and color.

Nicely done!!!!

Very creative idea nice work!

oooh cool

awesome job author good luck with your entry

beautiful colors and lights and very artistic

Good idea Although the mask looks like smashed rather than "disintegrating due to internal fire" :-P - that is because ot the unrealistically fine and undamaged edges.. If ure burning'em, burn'em good Cool sbs though

nice, but not so realistic in hi res,,, odd shapes

very nice

very nicely done, i would've loved to see a little bit of glow on the pieces. love the dramatic lighting good luck.

love the color... GL (:

perfect! GL!

cool

Woooooaaah! This is awesome!! Really nice old and deteriorated look!!

scheme and lightning is beautiful! it gives the image a african look!

very good

nice job..good eye catcher

Congrats on 7th...great peice...