OOps.. I accidentallz deleted mz comment.. Anyway.. I made a mistake in my comment.. I wanted to tell u that u had to soften up the shadow at the head. And at the tail, it had less opacity, so you could have put a gentle increase in opacity of shadow at its tail.. But i screwed up in the punctuation marks.. Apologies..

In the change u made, i feel u have overdone the opacity change at the head.. its better if u do not do any change in opacity.. just make the shadow softer in the head from the previous image..

EDIT: the opacity looks great to me .. like nator and blindscientist pointed out, the shadow is now a bit too soft .. i know i am annoying u now.. try to match the shadow softness with that of the chair.. i leave it to your judgement good luck..

i second arca.. also i feel the 2 cups on the right end have abnormal cuts in the photo. YOu could fix them. Great idea. Good luck..

tentacles look a bit flat in my opinion.. some highlights would make it much better.. Good luck

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about your sources.. i am not sure if u need to show 20 links.. maybe a MOD or an experienced user here will guide u with that... good luck..

looks great author.. I am not sure about this, but your source links just goes to cgtexture home page.. I am of the opinion that you should show the specific texture u have used.. Also the contest theme says sbs is mandatory.. so put up one before the mods pull u up!! good luck..

great work on the lighting and shadows... you can try removing the leaves on the wall which is visible in high res... good luck..

is it a swiss tooth?? nice modelling... good luck..

i hate to be a harsh on it,, but i feel the lighting is a bit off here.. The shadows cast on the surface appears to be very gentle however, the cup looks very dark in the mirror.. Could it be because you did not turn on "secondary bounces" for photons?...

Good modelling and texturing..

nice imagination author.. it looks visually impressibve.. u could add more shadows between the fingers.. about the veins, it looks quite awkward for them to bulge from the middle of the fingers, even if u decide to leave them that way, u should try to continue them along the lenght of the hand like u did for the thumb.. good luck

nice idea.. but the reflections are too metal like.. its quite hard to differenciate between the actual object and the reflection (especially the plants).. blur the reflections more and add some water ripples effect (like the one in source image).. and like CMYK said, tone down the reflections ..

aaaaahh.. very beautiful song.. thanks for the link author.. about ur image, great work here.. but u could add more shadows.. for eg, at the edge of her right calf, u need to add shadows to blend with the env.. , at her feet u need more shadows because there is too much difference in lighting bw her feet and the ground she has her feet on, that it appears that her feet are floating.. just play with the shadows and blend her well with the env.. gl

edit: my apologies author .. 'bw' was between and 'eg' referred to example.. hope u had a really fun time translating my comment

i hope the tiger appreciates the kiss after he wakes up roaaaaaaaaaaar!!! nice work.. gl

.. luv the expression

he he nice work author and my appreciation for the patience u had to do this work. it looks very exhausting.... but somehow i dont find ur lens flare effects on the pic..?? am i missing something??? gl

edit: hmm..the bg gradient like effect... okie,... how abt u reduce the size of the berry and make the image more detailed? very nice work author .. i am a fan of ur style of work.. its not very easy to do these..

excellent stuff with photoshop and brilliant SBS.. only thing missing was...u did not show how u made the text .. 1 observation.. he is a male char.. so, i feel the upper highlight/shadow on the chest makes it look like boobies.. being a hero char, i guess he should have a proper 'male' chest rather than boobies.. just my opinion.. gl

excellent work here author.. high scores..

very nice work.. i think there should not be stars at the halo region of the moon(moon halo would be brighter than the stars).. BUT here we are concentrating on the character.. so no probs.. the character's "pant" looks a bit flat and pasted.. try to blend it well with the environment.. gl

edit: put the clouds layer on top of star and moon layer.. stars are visible throught the clouds!!

nope author.. now u have seperate lught sources for each leg..one from 7 o'clock and another from 9 o'clock.. u have good painting skills.. why dont u manually paint the shadows??

EDIT: on the second thought is it just one lighting from 8 o'clock?? just ignore me author... sorry

the joker's shadow is wrong.. in ur case, u just cant use duplicate and skew the leg layer to create a shadow...please correct it.. a very beautiful work painting the joker, and nice use of source..

brilliant work.....

nice idea.. need to blend the hand with the arm.. try the healing tool...

author.. i agree with u.. but if u have the time and patience,u could try to build the face without enlarging the insect directly.. instead, arrange a number of those small pieces and blend them into one mass.. as u have put a lot of effort assembling him, i guess u could try working on his face too..

totally agree with Kid.. gl

NASA made a blunder by not workin properly on the shadows (like on the astronaut).. Author, listen to CMYK and u can make a better work than NASA..

very nice work here.. i just wish u could have made the face a bit more sharper.. but i guess u did ur best.. i really like the env and the electrical sparks from wires. nice details..good luck..

an eg of shadows on uneven surface - http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/01-blue-shadows.jpg take a look at the shadows of the branch on teh window...it maybe difficult to incorporate this fact in PS, in that case u could just raise the shadows so that they fall on the vertical portion of the bench alone..

in the shadow casted by the bench, it should not be completely black as there are gaps between the wooden planks in the bench.. One more thing is the shadows casted by the characters... the shadows of the feet of the male char and knee of female char are wrong.. these shadows fall on the horizontal seat of the bench and do not get seen as shown in this pic. there should be a small deviation between the shadows on horizontal portion and vertical portion of the bench.. just my opinions.. gl

very nice.. like ur theme very much

somehow i get the feel that these feet are too big for this baby.. not sure why!!!

very nice work.. gl

the milk splash at the top is a bit blurred.. u could work on it.. very nice concept.. gl

sources??

nice idea.. some observations 1) the leaves in gorilla's hands (in source img) need to be removed. 2) the aircraft propellers are not rotating!!! 3)both the girl and king kong are at the same distance from camera.. need more highlights on the girl 4) high res will be really appreciated.. nice image tone.. gl

very nice, but if u remove the highlights from the image, u may get 3D animation movie like effect.. But u are probably happy with the colourful statue..

needs quite some work to be done.. u have used smudge tool for melting effect, i suggest u try liquify tool. gl

beautiful renders.. great work on texturing... gl

excellent contraption and well sketched too.. good luck

EDIT: nice colours.. a comic book effect.. very nice...

brilliant stuff here... a lot of work and excellent use of source image... great SBS too.. gl

excellent sketch.. and very nice creation.. i wil try this out the next time my remote breaks .. gl

high up in the clouds, the image is pixelated.. do work on it.. gl

good work creating the rocket.. u could have probably used other items from the source image too... anyway its real nice work... gl

good work author... and great looking tie ...

everything except the sun appears blurred... or is it my eyes?? try to sharpen up the black planet/moon and the rocket.. gl

very nice render.. gl

looks great.. good luck

i like the environmentalist's campaigns .. but dont know what these guys are campaigning for.. very good blending work here.. gl

beautiful work.. just hoping it does not get removed off... gl