coooool !!! g l

WOW...phenomenal image. Amazing. great job author!

Great pic.

great job.............

very good work ,good luck

had a feeling it was you author..i like this image..i'm a sucker for this kind of mood..lol..great creativity, good luck!

Congrats!!

congrats !!

congratulations!!

congrats..........

Congrats!

Congrats for 3rd, super pic.

Congrats for your third place, Akassa!

Nice work...gl

Good.

stunning cool effect

beautiful elephant and nice atmosphere ! good luck !

you sure succeeded and making the BRRRRRRRRRRRRR factor.. great job

i think with more work on this you can win.
Try to make it seems really magical, work more on lights!

wonderfully surreal

Lovely image created after all the edits you did on the basis of the comments of people....GL....

Clearly better. Going to the next level --> If you take your background pic, make a copy of the top half from the horizon line up to the top of the sky, flip it vertically, and position it over the bottom half from the horizon line down, then you will see that it's virtually a perfect match of the lake reflections. Ergo, the lake is a pretty good mirror that takes on some fun-house-mirror characteristics where it gets disturbed. Lessons for you: The elephant is in front of the clouds in the real world so it also needs to be in front of the clouds in the reflected world. A reflection of the sky whirlpool should be part of the bottom of your image. The spired temples amongst the clouds as well as the moon have to be reflected in the lake. Ripple filter and smudging will obviously be needed. Separate issues: The fish and shell seem dubious -- and virtually unnoticeable without a hi-res. I'd make all the spires perfectly vertical.

Would be much better with the proper reflection...

Great job Author. G/L.

It's very nice ! Good job!

Good work.

gornats is right on: the elephant reflection should be just a vertical flip (with no size change).

nice job...

by the way , reflections and shadows are two different things
1.shadow is cast by an object in a way opposite to the light source.
2.reflection is the object viewed in a reflective surface .
so the reflection is not dependent from the light source, but from the angle of the viewer and the angle of the reflective surface.
So in this case i think the reflection should be almost parallel
....having sad that , the image is great i personally don't care much about reality of the unreal world it looks good and good luck

Author, maybe Kevin is right (if that shine we see in the middle-right is the light source)... And reflection is a bit sharp/hard (observe the clouds reflection). But it's a nice compo.

congrats for the 4th place... welldone

wow !

most nice!

Nice work...good luck

verey good .

I really like this one. It's very 'real' and I somehow believe it, compared the other entries. The low points for me are the ear, eyes and neck. Could probably use some shadowing.

C'mon CMYK.. we all know secretly the Na'avi have rebel emo children... haha I really like it .. but really need to lose the piercings ....

LOL fun comments.... The eyes are supposed to be greenish or yellow. The ear looks kinda freaky, nice effort tho

Cool...

Looks nice, though I agree about the piercings and personally I'd really get rid of the fancy twinkly brushes (but then that's just me, if you think it adds something to the image, keep them in). Good luck!

Yeah, why not have a Navi look like a pierced Earth dweeb...really exciting.

Neck area needs work (what's the blob above the necklace thing), lose the piercings...the rest is good.

clone out the piercings other then that good job

Sorry so late, saw it in the spotlight today. Congrats on 1st, it's well deserved!

cool work,nice ambient and colors! I don´t see nudity in the image

Cool...nudity is fine..please it's art guys!!!!!

you may have used 4 parts of the image, but in the final version all 4 parts probably make less the 10% of all...

Good mood, creative. Too little of source used.

Great entry, but in my opinion miniaml source used. Good luck.