Inspired by Jim Power logo:

http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/dbs/0701-0800/798_dbs1.png

http://hol.abime.net/798

I like the play with sharpness in this one.

Very distinguishable style and theme

offwhite: In the lower right, where the fence starts, the element next to it.
I really love the pic, just felt to have to give a comment why it's not a 10 in my opinion.

Aliens idea is neat though, maybe a space time hole - that distorts perspective and is about to swallow that building

FWIW I flip my pics horizontally, vertically after some time, it helps to see rough spots more easy. Sometimes these new perspectives also lead to a totally new picture when doing logos

Keep it up!

Colorz was a great demo!

Haha, where is the artcity "like" button when you need it?!

offwhite: You are wrong!

That odd building is the reason why the boy is looking across to this area. Therefore it is essential!

Thanks for the encouragement! It's a real honor coming from you.

Your absolutely right about that building. I didn't even see it before now d: I think I might have started out with a different perspective, and at some point I just forgot about that building. I'm not quite sure I understand what's bothering you about the wobbly fence tho'.

I think it's nice to get critique. After a certain amount of time I just can't see my own mistakes anymore, so it's nice to have a fresh pair of eyes. Thanks for pointing it out!

This is Jungle Warrior by Konstandin Igor Ruiz.

I like this! Has a very nice, kinda 80s kids movie vibe to it.

Fresh and excellent!

Love the mood, lighting,- the texture on the tree is beautiful - as the puffy clouds in that beautiful colours.

The only things that irks me a bit is the perspective of the buildings in the background, the taller building just looks off. The fence also looks a bit wobbly. But who am I to actually criticize it. Lovely image!

Just beautiful!

Palette, style, that perspective! <3

I agree it's hard to find a term that's both neutral and informative, especially if it also needs to be "diplomatic". But for me personally the term "reference" is very neutral. They are tools to help you realize your ideas.

I believe that at some point all works are referenced from what we have seen. Even the abstract or surrealistic stuff are just combinations of shapes or figures we have at some point remembered. And since we humans are limited creatures, there will be objects in the physical world we haven't "learnt" how to render correctly. The only reasonable thing to do in that case is to find some sort of reference and learn. Copying someone else's work entirely is a different matter of course. But let's not get into that.

Anyway, as you said, it would be really interesting to get more opinions on this.

And, thank you! It needs some more polishing though. I see that now that I've won a screen that doesn't hide my mistakes from me

Hey offwhite, thanks for your comment. It actually made me think about the term "inspired" again. That time, we agreed on it as a general term of inspiration, references, sources etc. but now i am thinking, maybe "referenced from" might be the more suitable term to represent the idea behind it.
A thing that would speak in favor if "inspired" may be that i find that "referenced" might have the association "copied from" sticking on it and i wanted to avoid that at all costs.
I hope to get into a dialog about this with some more ppl.

Last but most important. Contratulations, this is excellent work!

This was my personal favorite this year. Great composition and atmosphere!

My reference sheet is not my inspiration. My inspiration is the Hunger Games universe. I know it's only a word, and the use of it on artcity has a very wide range. It might sound like nitpicking, but why not tell things as they are?

One important thing though, I forgot to mention that the stock for head pose came from the lovely reine-haru.deviantart.com. Sorry about that!

I don't like renderings too often, but this one is quite awesome.