Congrats

congrats pal

Congratulations! Great entry

Definitely a winner! Composition and mood are both perfect

excellent work author............ definately my favourite in this contest I love the colours throughout the pic, its blended really well.

Looks good, and has an awesome BG source/mood. That tail is a bit strange, but you ran out of time, so it's understandable.

Looks good in Low-res, it's the most realistic image in this competition. I just 2 suggestions for you: (1) when you make the water splash, you can refer to the real one in the source that you used. The splash on the sea is blurred, not as clear as the one you made. From that distance, we almost can't see that splashes. (2) the composition: actually lower halve of the image has nothing to do, there is no information there. If the tail of the monster is seen on the bottom left of the image and you crop more tightly (the right side), your composition will be better.
Good luck, author!

Beautiful entry.... congrats....

Nice Job Congrats

congrats!

Congrats!!

congrats..

Congrats derdevil, brave girls

Awesome.I love this,absolutely super cool! Gooood luck and definite fav.

watch out

EEEEEPPP I got vertigo!!! Good Luck author

Congrats for your fourth place....nice work....

I love the image although i am having a hard time seeing the source. But I give kudos for the imagination.

Very nice....ditto to greymval....focus is difficult...texture should be consistent. a great entry none the less. Good Luck author.

Pretty cool design.
In CG there's a concept named "density"= meaning the amount and quality of the texture applied in the image.
Graphic designer try to level the overall density so that their works won't look photoshop/collage.
The main density rupture in this entry is that everything besides the creature is blurry, and most we can see more details on the creature than on the foreground, even if they are both part of the focal point.
Some people use noise/fog brushes to create atmosphere and level the density.
I hope my comment is coherent enough and helps. Congrats on your awesome color palette!

Amazing! GL!

This is great! The white beams of light seem a bit 'hazy' instead of light. Perhaps experiment with a few different blending modes. Duplicate some of the layers if you need more strength. Great job, though author!

I can imagine what a great battle it was,....I like a dramatizing pic like this one.....

Congrats

Congrats!! Really well crafted!!

Congrats for the 3rd place..., great entry

Congrats on your win

Congrats, very well done

Beautiful entry.... congrats for third...!

Nice Chop....congrats

Great job author and fantastic construction...beast look fantastic and glowing sphere is fantastic addition...u did really really good job with the background too...best of luck

Nice job

great job........

Fantastic job......Good Luck Author.

really awesome>>>>

Agree with all! This is some awesome work!!! Good luck!

very very good work author.........GL

is that alouwd the background is premade, nice work

WOO HOO!!! that about covers everything

This is freaking awesome! I want to be this good some day!

My thoughts, too, Bob - looks like an H.R. Giger creature. Great background find, stacking and warping, author. Love step 5 showing how you made the spine especially. LOL@your title.

Very Cool..GL

Nice looking alien...GL author!

congratulation...

Congrats!!

Congratulations!

very, very nice!!!!

They"ve arrived..... good imagination... good luck author!

Very cool entry author...NLO's are well made and great blended with the background...best of luck

Very well constructed image!