Contest #16: Background challenge

[Monolith]

awesome,but how about making that building at left side,u know its to much objects at the middle,but its up to u

[Lauli]

Alectric! Dude that's awesome! :O
Does it rain oldtimer cars on occasion in that BG?

But I think you should add some shadows under the gold statues. Oh and also get rid of the dirty pixels on the rainbow. They look even worse on a 50/50 opacity filter. I think.


But other than that, the grass, the trees, the mountains, the sky are freshest of the freshest!

[Alectric]

Thanks for the great feed back guys, its truly appreciated!

@hero Destroyer, fixed! I would like the rainbow at the front though.
@mudvoll_, nailed it, thank you ;D
@Monolith, thanks for the feedback. I agree its a bit cluttered, but with the parrallax scrolling i think it looks pretty good.
@Lauli, damn, good eye man! I didnt even spot that! Hopefully i fixed it now. I am so tempted to make it drop old timer cars...

Im sorry to keep filling this thread with my screenshots but... (Click to View)

This is basically the final look im happy with right now, i've even got a subtle water animation in the fountain!
Im trying to figure out this BG dependent action, but its doing my head in. It already took a bit of brain-frizzling to remember how to do DCing for BGs!

EDIT:
Also, those who were there to help me out in the last BG competition may have remembered how crappy my trees were. These are my trees now:

That is one damn sexy tree, aaawwww yeah. Gettin' some tree lovin all up in this shiz.
Shame i didnt properly use it in my BG, i only based the others off it.

[Monolith]

awesome,alec,woohoo,this bg will be best

[Hero destroyer]

Wow! It's more better than before. Ah, what a view!

[Ariel]

only one thing i think u should fix
and thats the main duck
his shading is too light and the guy on him and the little ducks are more dark
i think u shopuld fix that little prob
gl! awesome BG!!

[Lauli]

Although I'm not sure about the shadows of the statues.
They look very good, but they would also look good if instead they were... shaded? Like the shadows of the wood for example.
I can't decide which shadow I like more D:

[Monolith]

Sunset (Click to View)

this is Rento Background

DOWNLOAD
Layered: Yes
Scrolling: Yes
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this is even not a challenge for Alec or mundvol_,but still,this is my first bg ever.
That sunset pic, is my,i drawed it today,it took me 2h,its first drawing with GIMP
@E,if u cant download then i u can download from here [attachment=2505]

[Silverthorn]

@Monolith: Hmm, does GIMP have a smudge tool? Because it does quite look like it. Try to paint a little over the sky to give it a bit more depth

Also, trees are a good keyword. Speaking of them, I now feel like sharing a little thingummy I've been working on. Nothing major, just a quick doodle:

Spoiler (Click to View)

And yes, I've made it a habit of having the maskman in each of my backgrounds

Download link coming shortly

[Monolith]

@Monolith: Hmm, does GIMP have a smudge tool? Because it does quite look like it. Try to paint a little over the sky to give it a bit more depth

Also, trees are a good keyword. Speaking of them, I now feel like sharing a little thingummy I've been working on. Nothing major, just a quick doodle:

Spoiler (Click to View)

And yes, I've made it a habit of having the maskman in each of my backgrounds

Download link coming shortly

nice thing with blue phoenix under chars

this is full drawing part of bg (Click to View)