really great

Lovely ... nice mod ... suprisingly the image on the wall makes a full heart .. one heart ..two person..

funny!!!

that's different

Very cool!

nice idea and work!

lol..good 1

Cool and funny.....Beautiful work...

now THAT is one cool seagull

lol...hehehehe!

Funny . The sunbathing gulls look a bit dead now, is it an idea to put their head a bit more down just as you would have it if your backhead is leaning against a matras (I mean that the chin would be on the body)? Perhaps then the look more relaxed. Good luck!

Congrats on 2nd place!!!!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!

Congrats for your second place, Barnacle!

Hahahaha...great blend...GL

Good work, although, I have to agree with JamesD, try give the face more realistic parts, as if its coming out to life...GL

I can see you added parts to make it more real but at first glance, it doesn't look like it's been changed. You might want to try adding features protruding away from the original tattoo (an arm on the side or extension of the collar) to make it look more like it was coming to life.

I don't think enough has been done to make an immediate impact. (I have looked at the sbs and can see what's been done btw) - I think if you make it more obvious then it has more potential!.

Just looks like a realistic tattoo...

Nice work.....

great,gl

Not bad at all. The statue texture in the middle/blending section would have made it even more realistic. Very nice..

great idea,very nice!

This has a lot of potential.. unfortunately playing around with perspective and distortion just made them look like a cardboard cutout. Good luck.

i would have played with the board a bit more. It looks flat, give it some depth where you have broken it. Also the perspective and height it is at... It would be a bit lower to the ground if he was in the snow already, and the board wouldn't be on that angle, distort it or play with perspective to flatten it off a bit like its going to hit the ground goodluck.

very nice

Why are homeless people in a high income distric, everyone has on coats or jackets but the homeless lady and child should be in a shelter.

Too bad you couldn't spend more time on this...it's pretty funny.

the homeless people picture same one as from an earlier entry. GL

i agree with CMYK, id find a different pic for the homeless people, this is clearly the same one as from an earlier entry. I'd just bring the other man into focus and focus the image on him more... nice message!

Interesting idea, and very good sentiment, but you distorted the mother & child figures...

cool. I like it. Maybe you could take your time and make the entry better by adding depth to the board. it looks like a sheet of paper now. You could make it look more in depth by showing its inner parts too you know the wood "inside" the board where it was broken.

Very nice blending and idea, great result.

Great idea, nicely done.

Good idea but light is from above, so there wouldn't be a shadow at the top of the nose...

yep.. high res is nice too. BUT the shadow wouldn't be above the nose, put some light in the nostrils too

not bad

great

looks mare like you took a pic of a girl laying lext to all wall and cut it out to be the shape of a book, than a popup book, we can use our immagination all we want , its physically impossible to get that look out of folding paper.

edit : after looking at your source it appears like thats exactly what you did. it looks good, little simple, but the end result would not work for a popup book. sorry

yes :P as long as they are folds for transporting the model around, and not some old wrinkly hag!

where can i buy this book...good luck author

very nice work and imagination... but i think it'll be better if u flatten or attach some part of girl to book

could be a very interesting idea if you would make the girl looking more flat, like a real pop-up.

i think what is confusing people is that the girl is tooooo 3d so it just looks like she is laying on the book. It doesn't look like the book would close flat. It is a nice image though.

... i could stare at it for hours and still think the same!... and learn nothing... no offence!...

personally I would make it as real as possible to an actual pop up book... not only would it look great, but it would be exactly 100% on theme, without the use of having to rely on peoples imagination...

Regardless... I hope you place where you expect to................

just get your source image sorted out otherwise ill have to imagine it still in the contest!!... :P

yes but we are saying that she doesn't look as though she is attached as in 'pop up book '... thats the theme... thats the idea! it's got to look real as though it was a pop up book... otherwise it isn't to theme... and becomes something else... but anyway...

Well I still can't see it personally... all you've done is line up the image to the fold in the book... which then makes the woman look as though she is lying in the book like maXed said... she isn't an element thats popping up... I shouldn't have to use my imagination to make your entry 'work'

EDIT: OK OK I actually see your logic... but i think the girl then should look like her feet are attached to the page... so that it makes it clear she is an 'element standing up'...cause seriously it just looks like she is propping her feet up onto the wall... and maybe a fold line where she would fold when the book is closed!!...

AND AS AN APOLOGY:... i had better inform you that you haven't included your own image of your book uncut/unaltered in your sbs... so it will get removed if you don't rectify that...

I don't think its spam... 'donk' ... I think it's making authors aware that their entry is off theme... if you disagree then re-read the contest goal... and your justification is just as bad as "i assume the land mass of my planet represents my country" - It's meant to be a pop up book... technically the pop up book would be broken looking at the angle of the body in relation to the books spine...