cool idea

Funny, it looks like a 1st person shooting game screenshot!

That's awesome to know that some people in this world actually have a heary for them! They can be the most loving dogs, and will usully always want to obey their owner, so that is why they fight, when the yare trained to fight.

Cute. I love dogs. is that a boxer or pitbull?

Perhaps the rock should be semi-melting on the physical contact zones, another realism mark is never too much.

Such a pretty image, I love the glowing.. and the adjustment of the eye is quite well done, good luck author, quite beautiful

Too blurry looking. I also don't understand what makes it a "Japanese painting," as Japanese paintings were generally pictorial narratives done in a highly refined style, with crisp colors and clean, sharp, stylized linework, not blurry people with a "glow" around them...

"Various techniques thrown together" tells us nothing about how you created this image, and makes it seem more of a random "digital doodle," than any type of skilled chop.

Tweety's?

The light on the whale (above left) does not match the moon (beneath) or the monk (shadow beneath) or the wall (shadow to the left).
Consistency of lighting is a basic, yet very important consideration to a good chop, regardless how "surreal" the concept may be.

The light on the whale (above) does not match the moon (beneath) or the monk (shadow beneath) or the wall (shadow to the left).
Consistency of lighting is a basic, yet very important consideration to a good chop, regardless how "surreal" the concept may be.

The light on the whale (above) does not match the moon (beneath) or the monk (shadow beneath) or the wall (shadow to the left).
Consistency of lighting is a basic, yet very important consideration to a good chop, regardless how "surreal" the concept may be.

Awesome!!! I love it..... GL author

the monk is too huge. the whale can be much much smaller, and jumping over the moon may be better?

You ussually pierce your eyebrow cause you think of yourself as a badboy, lol. So I would clone that metal off. You could add more contrast to the background, likr making the right side red, so the opposites would be more contrasting. And you should try dodging the eyebrow of the blonde guy, since that black looks suspicious. Good luck.

Flip the moon so the light source matches the lighting on the wall & the monk.
EDIT: Better now.

More contrast would have been nice, meaning, keep the penguin with black & white and have a different color background- some light blue.

so creepy :o

kyrcom that movie scared the LIFE outta me! the end was sooooo freaky!

Was the camera shake on purpose?

LOOK OUT! The Blair Witch is behind you!

Nice imagination author...best of luck

cool, has a War of the Worlds feel to it.

in the high res author.. you may want to go over just the edge of the BJORK ANDROID with a very soft blur brush..(maybe only in that vacant area under the foreground arm pit.. or just add a simple gradient pad behind it.. the space is a bit confusing.. yes I can see through it.. but I think there should be some substance there holding the spine together..

It's a super duper fun image.. I LOVE IT... and all my suggestions are just IMHO.. I have no idea where your vision was going.. and I love it for that

(I adore anything that reflects "All is Full of Love"

The figure in the doorway is too blurry. The foreground is focused, the doorway is focused, as are the objects behind it. That figure shouldn't look so fuzzy around the edges. It should also have the slightest bit of backlighting around the edges from light refractions off its back.

Well portrayed concept ... what you are trying to express comes across very well!

Very nice work!

Very strong entry...best of luck author...GL

Awesome and inspirational, great idea for the contest too = )

This image according to me is a winner....SUPERB my dear author I am really amazed to see this.

Very, very nice job.

Very nice...you catched that very moment extremly nice and moodful.

Beautiful and expressive!

Not much here... but I think you could have done much better..... good luck.

great shot...gl

Congrats

Nice concept! Good luck!!

Very interesting.

cool thinking...GL author

nice imagination...gl

That's what I see when I'm on drugs; just wish I could see the strings maybe go around the fingers... Still like it!

The background and foreground both rub against my grain

I like it!

Would be even more dramatic if you could introduce a bit more brightness in eye and some color. I realize that this goes beyond logic...but it would make the image stand out even more. Then again...is there logic holding a magnifying glass up to an animal such as this? Anything goes!

Nice job, author!

Gornats: The song is about drug addiction. Hence I can see why people couldn't get the ballerinas, as opposed to drug addicts.

Really clever idea and love the song!

I have to agree with Mossy ... perhaps instead of enlarging the eye you could reduce the rest of the Tiger ... your image is quite large and you could easily reduce it to 1200-1500 pixels wide (a lot of monitors are no more than 1280x1024) and still have a decent High res. Also, in high res the edges of the Magnifying glass are a bit rough (to help this you can select the Glass, contract selection by 1 or 2 px then apply a layer mask and blur slightly or you can create a new layer and set blur tool on "sample all layers" and blur the edge then erase away what you don't want ...or if you don't like either of those could just go over the edge with the blur tool but you don't have as much control.

Edit: MUCH BETTER!

I have to agree with gornats, when I listed to this song i don't get a mental image of pretty ballerina girls.

The enlarged eye is too blurry. Great concept, but the purpose of magnification is to see something larger and clearer.

....master of puppets is pulling your strings
twisting your mind, smashing your dreams .... as the song i think it should have a darker feel, but that's just me

very cool effects author...gl

Here my opinion :
The main symbol of the puppeteer is that wood cross on which the strings are attached:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/?id=14803377&refnum=1647260&source=sxchu04&source=sxchu04
but i don't know where you could find a stock with that. If you do, it would improve the mood for sure.
You have 3 girls, all in white & all brunettes, which lowers the impact, cause of the same element repetition ( and not cause they're brunettes ) .
You could:
- either keep just one, controlled by two hands = more of a "being controlled" feeling.
-or have them all in different colors, neutral color on the foreground girl, & opposing colors on the other two.
- or one evil one good, one sad one happy, etc.
That would give a "playing with your mind feeling"