This is a cool concept, and it's nice to see a mix of 3d & 2d.

Great idea and very nice work author...I have to ask why the 3d elements are so blurry? U made them in 3d and they have to be sharper for sure...IMHO u should fix that...best of luck

erathion, thanks for your comment i used a motion blur filter on the spacecraft to try and convey movement/speed. Also the spacecraft is not supposed to be the main focus, i wanted/needed the starfish to be the point of interest as that is what i had to photoshop and the craft is used to bulk out the scene. Hope this makes scense, i can make it sharp, but feel this would detract from overall image. Thank you erathion, i do appreciate you taking the time to comment.

An interesting image with a lot of imagination, but i don't really agree with your choice of how you transformed the starfish itself. The source lost a lot of depth, and in high res it looks over-warped. I'd suggest either shading the starfish with the dodge and burn tools to give it a bit more depth, or simply adding the source again, but this time without the flattening.

ponti55 i needed it to match the desert scene. I didn't want to go mad with the transform but if i hadn't someone would have commented that it didn't blend with the background enough......and you have commented on the opposite thanks for your input..

Well then i might suggest simply changing the background. In my opinion it would improve the image dramatically if the source didn't look so 2-dimensional.

Congratulations!

Congrats...

Congrats for 2nd