CONGRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATS!!!

I could be a little more obnoxious, but i don't want to.

Is that a red balloon?!

Great image author! Very sweet and very well made

I think Mossy needs a new monitor. :-P

Very nice and serene image author, good luck

Very nice and clean render! Looks great

A very authentic feel.. the image looks great

Great to know you didn;t just go filter crazy, but rather decided to create your own style. High marks from me

Excellent atmosphere! The raindrops look a little too elongated, but the mood is great

Just... genius.

Perfectly blended.. it's very difficult to make a strong landscape on it's own, but you pulled it off perfectly.

Super clever animal placement and excellent source blending.
Very nice work

Very clever! Great shading and source blending

The flames don't look too much like flames at the moment. I would try a Screen blending mode with some glow emanating from it. Good luck

The dogs need some shadows, and i would also shrink them down slightly, they seem a bit too big at the moment. Watch out for opposing light sources too (the man and the dogs) I'd flip the man horizontally to match the lighting on the background.

Good luck

Very nice atmosphere and very good composition! The bird's shadow could do with a little more tweaking, maybe fade it slightly with a layer mask as the shadow progresses. But it's a very good first entry, and welcome to the site

Edit: Also, if you use your own photos, you need to show the unedited form in your step by step guide. Add a guide by going to My Stuff -> My Contest Entries and adding a guide

Good luck

Be sure to credit the tutorial you used to create this image.

Absolute genius. Great to have an artist like yourself here

Working with silhouettes is not always easy, but you really pulled it off! Very nice work

Helmets. Are. AWESOME.

Good luck!

What a great idea.. i could be here for hours! Good luck

Very well executed!

I decided to go against spamming the comments with "BRILLIANT!" just to keep my account.. but this is BRILLIANT!!!!

Whoever that person is, he likes to criticize images that are waaaaay out of his league.

Fantastic modelling, great rendering and a beautifully composited entry are all things to be very proud of. Good luck

Regardless of simplicity, the composition and the entire feel of the image are very original and well created. It's a very well made entry. Good luck

The attention to detail is just incredible! Fantastic work author.

Fantastic expressions and well created characters! Good luck

Very nice looking image, great job with the eyes

Well you've certainly achieved "Creepy" well enough!

Snow isn;t too hard to make in photoshop, my method is adding noise onto a black background and blurring it by 2 or so pixels, then using levels isolating just a few white specks. (Much like when creating rain using the "Noise" method if you're familiar)

Then i go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Crystallize and play around with the values. Once you press okay you'll have larger white flakes, i then add a bit of motion blur, set the blending mode to screen and reduce the opacity a bit.

That is, if you feel like changing the brushes :P Good luck!

Good concept! I'd expect the blood to be a little darker though.

Good luck

Congratulations! Beautiful entry..

Haha!! Congrats Bob

Congrats buddy! Awesome work

Original, thought provoking and EXTREMELY well made.

Way to show off your talent..

Fantastic image author Good luck.

Haha! Brilliant idea and very good execution. Good luck author

Super impressive,, very realistic and definitely one of the best in the contest. Lovely

Very well crafted.. top notch work here.

Inventive and original, good luck

Haha! Brilliant.. it looks great

Very complex... the end scene looks great! Nice use of different sources.

The background looks great to me! Very good model and render Nice work.

Fantastic concept.. good luck

Absolutely stunning! Fantastic work

Nice looking slime and good shadow! In high res there are some white edges i suggest removing, but it looks great besides that

Great looking image, very clean and sharp. Well done

Apixeldot - your comment is hugely irrelevant.

Good luck!

The edges look a bit over-stylized and don;t really shout "frozen" to me, maybe some reflections from the texture would help the effect. Good luck

Too. Much. Patience.

My mouse would've been a pulp of wires and metal on the floor by the end of it. Nice work

I would reconsider the entire image.. at the moment all i see is a fetus, a stopper that looks like brains and a weird grey light beam. It's a very deep thought with a strong message, but you have to think about what would fit in better with the given source. Maybe take the time to rebuild a new jug, or maybe use the glass to shape a pouch or a sphere to place the fetus inside.

Good luck

The transition is well made, and your underwater area looks good, but at the moment the loch ness monster looks more like a cow's udders.

I suggest studying the fins of different animals and trying to replicate them a little more realistically with shading and depth.

I'd also remove the bubble overlay on the underwater part, the water would look better without it. Good luck.

Watch out for white edges around your objects, these are quite visible even in low res. Other than that it's a good simple chop.. the glasses make her look very badass.

Nice work.

This has to be one of your best! Very well made scene.. good job