Oh, it has a navel!...

Nice robot... but you needed more masking around it... some pieces of background were left, or probably it is the resolution....? any way.... good luck author.

It needed a bit more cleaning up, but other than that, really cute!

Thanks for the comment guys... But I love the dirty edges actually...

Good image! The only change I'd make would be to make the teeth from the teeth on the bucket.

Haha! Brilliant.. it looks great

Cool image, especially the bucket head

You did a good use of the source image. Good imagination. GL.

Wonderful work. Your use of shadows makes the whole image pop ... very creative and well put together... bravo!

Great work author...u used source image fabulously...well done

Oh wow, this is really good! Almost 3D like. Great job, author!

Congrats for your third place, Zakfuego!

Congrats!

Congrats man...

Congrats!! Nice work!

cool work

looks great, love it

great job building the model -- high res is worth the look to really see the effert.

wonderful stuff..... and perfect use of source High marks and fav from me....

bravo, good luck!

wonderful use of the source and an excellent sbs well done

Fantastic work! Especially love the work on her eyes.

Beau travail !! I like it.

Wonderful just wonderful! I love the scenario love the "gingerbread" detail! There's a touch of Fritz Lang (Metropolis)here as well.

What everyone else said!

Really nicely done! Good luck!

Wonderful creation and the SBS is OUTSTANDING!!!!

Oh my wow! A LOT of work went into this one, I can tell. Very nicely done and very creative. Great SBS too

Very good entry.

Awesome SBS as always, and really cool art work = )

this is just mind blowing and explicit work

Very beautiful, amazing work!

Absolute winner...Perfect entry author...

great .........

Just fantastic. What an excellent use of source..

Congrats, Arca, awesome chop!!

Congrats for a well deserved first place. Lovely entry!

Very well done, congrats on first place!

Thank you all so much for the votes, wonderful comments and favs!

congrats on first place

Congratulations....great work.

Congratulations! Very well done

Congrats Arca, awesome work

Wow, wonderful, I though it was from Spaceranger, that's not your usual style, but still fantastic. Congrats Arca on your win and the high score!!!!

Congrats!! I love it!

well deserved 1st pace with a great score..... Congrats...

congrats!!

congrats!

Congrats Arc...Perfect work,one of my favorite favorites....well done

Congrats ! So amazing !!

I missed the contest, but saw this on the front page. Beautiful work! So much patience, so much detail. This is going into my favs. Congratulations on placing first!

Where did the face come from? There is no source listed, and if it's painted, please show a couple of steps.

Edit: ok, cool.

Sorry Pearlie, but the source is up now, it takes a few minutes ...... and its a photo of a mask....not a painting or a rendering.....was the only decent pic of a mad scientist i could find

Pic looks better in high res

Definitely works in hi res ... I agree with you author! Love the concept and I think there is a great story here ... I would hate to have him rolling down the tracks after me! I can just imagine a girl tied to the tracks in front of him ... anyone ever heard about The Perils of Pauline!

nice work

Very odd but nicely made

Oh my gosh, that thing in the window, totally sacred me, lol. Nice work.

Damn......53.9% score??????
What an insult.
That seems a bit low....this piece wasnt the best in the contest, but deserved a better score than that..

Quote:
"...this piece wasnt the best in the contest, but deserved a better score than that."

By what standards? Every piece ranking better than yours showed much more effort, transforming the source image, while your entry basically just masked off portions and added a face and some lights. Technically it was sound work, but aesthetically you didn't alter the image all that spectacularly to rank much more than "average," which at 50%, is pretty much where you landed after 841 votes.

Perhaps if you had put your "scientist" in more of an environment, say of a laboratory, or a hidden workshop, your concept would have read better and you would have gotten a better score. But for what you did, compared to all the other entries, I think you ranked correctly in this contest.

Don't let your hubris control you. It won't help here. To rank high, you have to show more than just good chop skills, you need your concepts to show good imagination as well.

Mossy B........No need to tell me how to rank high...i am an old timer here and used to be in the top 10 choppers at the old PST.
The problem is the voting system....people vote without understand what goes into the picture and i just dont have time to make a 10 step guide.

The concept in this pic was good and it should of scored higher.
53 % is an insult
Nothing to do with my Hubris controlling me.

Well done. Once I was trying to help this praying mantis that was sitting on the side of the street. I got a stick so it could climb on it, and as soon as I put the stick in front of it, it opened up it's wings, stood back on his hind legs, with front legs ready in attack mode, and hissed at me louder then a snake. Holy cow, I jumped back so fast, and my heart almost jumped out of my chest. I didn't know that they could do that. Then I was laughing my head off thinking how funny that must have looked. I decided he can take care of him self, lol. =)
Great robomantis!!!

very handsome (and Emik's story is hysterical)

nice job

Thank you for the comments... and Emik, what a funny story you say

Looks like a cross between a Praying Mantis and a firefly! Umm... I guess that is why you called it Robomantis (silly me)!

Great story Emik! I would love to see one in person ... but not sure if I want it to hiss at me!

Ummm can I just say wow, cuz WOW! Very nice job and very creative, and I love the coloring. You are very talented

Thanks, I don't usually leave comments that long, but had to share as your awesome robomantis totally reminded me of that day = )

nice work done

very very nice work author...good luck

Thank you