133 comments received ( finished contests only ):
avatar Cino
Cino says:

cool idea

(5 years and 2480 days ago)

Training
avatar rusvelt2000

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

(5 years and 2481 days ago)

Training
avatar InklingsofBlue

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.

(5 years and 2585 days ago)

My Polo
avatar Agnieszka
Agnieszka says:

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

(5 years and 2588 days ago)

My Polo
avatar Akassa
Akassa says:

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

(5 years and 2709 days ago)

Flaming Tiger
avatar Drivenslush

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

(5 years and 2711 days ago)

Japanese Painting
avatar MossyB
MossyB says:

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.

(5 years and 2711 days ago)

Japanese Painting
avatar Drivenslush

Tweety's?

(5 years and 2823 days ago)

Sexuality
avatar MossyB
MossyB says:

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.

(5 years and 2824 days ago)

Surreal China
avatar MossyB
MossyB says:

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.

(5 years and 2824 days ago)

Surreal China
avatar MossyB
MossyB says:

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.

(5 years and 2824 days ago)

Surreal China
no avatar

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

(5 years and 2824 days ago)

Surreal China
avatar aheman
aheman says:

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

(5 years and 2824 days ago)

Surreal China
avatar greymval
greymval says:

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.

(5 years and 2825 days ago)

PURE and EVIL
avatar CMYK46
CMYK46 says:

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

(5 years and 2826 days ago)

Surreal China
avatar greymval
greymval says:

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

(5 years and 2835 days ago)

Penguin Records
avatar Teebone100

so creepy :o

(5 years and 2851 days ago)

The Attic
avatar Teebone100

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

(5 years and 2851 days ago)

Corners
avatar friiskiwi
friiskiwi says:

Was the camera shake on purpose?

(5 years and 2852 days ago)

Corners
avatar kyricom
kyricom says:

LOOK OUT! The Blair Witch is behind you!

(5 years and 2852 days ago)

Corners
avatar erathion
erathion says:

Nice imagination author...best of luck

(5 years and 2883 days ago)

Innocent Invasion
avatar pearlie
pearlie says:

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

(5 years and 2886 days ago)

Innocent Invasion
avatar Drivenslush

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"

(5 years and 2886 days ago)

Innocent Invasion
avatar MossyB
MossyB says:

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.

(5 years and 2927 days ago)

Hiding
avatar arca
arca says:

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

(5 years and 2932 days ago)

New Life
avatar arca
arca says:

Very nice work!

(5 years and 2932 days ago)

Light at the End
avatar erathion
erathion says:

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

(5 years and 2934 days ago)

New Life
avatar EmiK
EmiK says:

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

(5 years and 2936 days ago)

New Life
avatar zainemma
zainemma says:

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

(5 years and 2936 days ago)

New Life
no avatar

Very, very nice job.

(5 years and 2936 days ago)

New Life
avatar sunzet
sunzet says:

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

(5 years and 2936 days ago)

New Life
avatar DanielaOwergoor

Beautiful and expressive!

(5 years and 2938 days ago)

New Life
avatar George55
George55 says:

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

(5 years and 2940 days ago)

Silhouette Suicide
avatar erathion
erathion says:

great shot...gl

(5 years and 2940 days ago)

Tyson, My Amazing Staffie
avatar Chuck
Chuck says:

Congrats

(5 years and 2941 days ago)

Pretty BIG Liars
avatar minnie
minnie says:

Nice concept! Good luck!!

(5 years and 2941 days ago)

Light at the End
no avatar

Very interesting.

(5 years and 2942 days ago)

Creation or Termination?
avatar erathion
erathion says:

cool thinking...GL author

(5 years and 2942 days ago)

Eye of the Tiger
avatar erathion
erathion says:

nice imagination...gl

(5 years and 2942 days ago)

Creation or Termination?
avatar sgc
sgc says:

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!

(5 years and 2943 days ago)

Master of Puppets
avatar sgc
sgc says:

The background and foreground both rub against my grain

I like it!

(5 years and 2943 days ago)

Mwah
avatar pixelkid
pixelkid says:

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!

(5 years and 2943 days ago)

Eye of the Tiger
avatar pixelkid
pixelkid says:

Nice job, author!

(5 years and 2943 days ago)

Touch up
avatar jawshoewhah
jawshoewhah [banned] says:

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

(5 years and 2943 days ago)

Master of Puppets
avatar arca
arca says:

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!

(5 years and 2944 days ago)

Eye of the Tiger
no avatar
Keiley22 says:

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

(5 years and 2944 days ago)

Master of Puppets
avatar MossyB
MossyB says:

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

(5 years and 2944 days ago)

Eye of the Tiger
avatar gornats
gornats says:

....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

(5 years and 2944 days ago)

Master of Puppets
avatar erathion
erathion says:

very cool effects author...gl

(5 years and 2944 days ago)

Mwah
avatar greymval
greymval says:

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"

(5 years and 2944 days ago)

Master of Puppets