3d work is difficult. working with Blender which has such an unfriendly user interface is an act of courage. very good work. now I'm sure will shall see better and better blender works. good luck.

It is a non-anonymous contest btw...cool image .

Looks good, great job.

Good work!

Congrats for your first place, Downofthedragon!

Nice!

purples kewl

Not very unique. There's too many entries with just a slight adjustment to the source like tone and make up change.

very nice

i have not worked with 3d, however visually and for a first time entry i think this is just FAB! Can not wait to see what you produce in the future.. GL

too bright

nice surreal athmosphere but need more work.

GL

This looks great to me, it's your first 3D render and it's very impressive! The reflections are excellent and the materials look good. The cake does look a tad bit blurry, but not enough to worry about. You could do some post work in photoshop if you wanted to.

For being your first render you did a decent job! There's a lot of tweaking that needs to be done though. The glass isn't correct transparent and should refract (look for glass tutorials about that). As for the texturing you should smooth the surfaces and add bump maps.

Good. Blender is a difficult program and this is a fine beginning. Take it easy with reflections and things will improve for sure.

Excellent!

hmm sparkly & glitzy. interesting

A bit filter heavy, but it looks nice.

something odd about the girl's shadow. Very cute though!

Fewer than three steps? :P

Interesting break. Nice change for the use of source.

nice work

nice image and good use of source!

She looks more severely burned than muddy. Also the cotnrast is a bit too high.

Good idea!

Yeappers, the kids will get like this with tablespoon of dirt... g/l

The shadow looks a little fake to me, try to give it a soft shape.

Very lovely idea. I like it!

gl

the crack on his back looks pretty good!

you are correct about the pixie. you could have drawn on her as a new layer to sharpen her.

Nice use of source... a very vibrant piece.

Nice, but you should try to blend the wings a bit better. Good luck

Wings are way too small for the figure....

Nice - but you might want to add a touch of blue maybe to the base of the wings to help with the blend? Also you might want to add your source on the main page or you might get asked a few times, not everyone looks at the sbs.. GL.

I'm quite impressed with the stardust though. Good luck.

Pretty ok idea. There's quite some depth of field in the source image. Around the edge of the corn it's all blurred. I'd expect that for the fetus too. Good luck!

Beautiful colors and a whole lot of fun.. good luck author.. very smiley

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Cool :*)

flattening the image IS merging all layers.. you should put the shadow layer below the cow layer, put some blur, play with blending options to see which one fits best. i don't see why you don't use the same technique you used with the other shadows

the shadow from the doll is wrong and the shadow from the cow doesnt match the others, i like how you did the eyes on the statues and the idea is cool...

Nice

you forgot to tweak the cow's shadow. i hope. and why would you flatten the image at the end?

slightly confused as to the point in having the bits on the outside, but i like the idea behind this! very interesting indeed!

well, this is dfferent!

Are those two sisters? Very good colour combination... Ghoust endo plasma...

Interesting effects tho I think maybe just one figure would have more impact?

Nice colours, very..potent. good job!!