05-23-2013, 12:01 AM
Just briefly the transition and contrast between your lit areas and the terminator shadow/core shadow areas are probably a bit too abrupt and contrasty. The falloff in light output from a muzzle flash is quite low because it is so bright in the instance it is firing but you could still probably add more of a blended value transition. The human especially looks tpo washed out with no shadowing.
From a realism point of view that muzzle flash is more like a flamethrower and it's so bright it's drawing too much focus....if it's supposed to be that's fine, but I would say use ref of an assault rifle on what muzzle flash actually looks like and what colour it is.
Perspective on the alien's second mouth isn't quite right, and I'd like to see a bit more how it's body connects up perhaps because at the moment it is mostly disembodied hands and tail and head. The purple in the background is way too saturated, so I'd tone it down to draw focus to where is't suppose to be. For the most part, I'd really focus mostly on values. Use black on a colour layer over top or an adjustment layer to check your values, as you only have one layer at the moment, and that is foreground.
From a realism point of view that muzzle flash is more like a flamethrower and it's so bright it's drawing too much focus....if it's supposed to be that's fine, but I would say use ref of an assault rifle on what muzzle flash actually looks like and what colour it is.
Perspective on the alien's second mouth isn't quite right, and I'd like to see a bit more how it's body connects up perhaps because at the moment it is mostly disembodied hands and tail and head. The purple in the background is way too saturated, so I'd tone it down to draw focus to where is't suppose to be. For the most part, I'd really focus mostly on values. Use black on a colour layer over top or an adjustment layer to check your values, as you only have one layer at the moment, and that is foreground.