the shadow was a headache because it didn’t look 100% correct to me either, no matter where I put it or how much opacity. The intent is just to show its mass, and obviously the light is irrelevant in that regard, since anything of mass would cast a natural shadow anyway. So that’s the effect I was going for. But after 4hrs or so, I figured it was time to let it go and move on to something else. And just for the record, I used 4 other images to create this volley. =)
Overall, I’m really happy with it. It’s not often the first thing that comes to mind is what comes to be with these things. It looks pretty much exactly the way I envisioned it, the moment I picked out that steeple in yours.
one way you couldve done it is get the city and rock and copy it and merge the copied layer. next, change the threshhold to black and blur it, than skew it, than change the opacity to make it look like a real shadow…get wat i mean?
I was looking at the shadow and thinking that it would have looked better if you painted the shadow in, since you were dealing with the rolling hills. The closest hill was probably far enough from the city that either the whole thing would be covered in shadow or none of it would be, the shadow you used would be the right size for the middle hill, and the far away hill would be a small area covered in shade.
Just some suggestions, I still thought the picture was amazing. Nothing i could have thought up! The light in the picture is just great.
Second of all haven’t you seen Sonic the Hedgehog??? If you have haven’t you seen the floating island??? You never actually saw the source of it’s power unless you went inside it.
haha, im in boston, i can see from your location thats pretty far away I dont know… not even unflux.com shows up on my comp. I posted that i didnt see your sig before but deleted it because it started showing up. So I dont know… I wonder what it is?
lol, moncrey, when you switch your dns it can take up to 48 hours to propagate through the world’s isp’s…it’s all he’s saying, hope UNFLUX will correct me if I’m wrong
This is my final serve. To let you guys know, UNFLUX’s last serve was really hard to manip, so instead, i just added clouds on top and some coloring and the pixiedust in the middle. o and the number 7 is right next to the dot. enjoy this very pleasant and simple piece. Unflux, i had a really great time battling you and hope we get to do it again sometime.
Wow, I really don’t think there can be a winnner for this battle. It’s like two crazy warriors dueling to the death with their last blows cutting eachothers heads off.
Well not exactly, but I think both your vollies have been very very well done. Cheers to you both!
I dont know… not even 
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