“Um…Hello.”
Its a common situation. The weird looks. The stares. The whispering.
Its hard to be the new guy.
A little twist on a common situation.
All Crits and comments wanted, please remember to vote.
peace
Drew
Oh yeah,
Rendered with Blender Internal, sub AO, a bit of post-pro in Photoshop.
I like this very much! oww, I feel sorry for that new guy. That pixelated effect is great for this kind of projects. Is it made with that new script or with photoshop or something?
Ooh, ooh, I know how he did it! 
Heh, nice work, Freeality. I’ve always liked your ‘crap-loads of stuff’ pictures. Actually, another thing I’ve noticed is I really like your colour balance and lighting.
nice pic, and I might be tired from work, but which one is the new guy? 
good work!
but one idea - you could add some layer, where image is desaturated, and you could play with brightness and contrast. after that you could add some basic color, for example, aqua blue. and then add radial blur. then again correct some brightness. after these actions your job could look more toony. of course this is my subjective view.
really good job!
I like it, and the pixel effect really adds something to the picture!
If this is first person, a lot of the guys seem to be staring to the left side of him, instead of at him. Looks a bit off centered for first person, but that is just MO. I might suggest turning them a little towards the middle, but otherwise its great!
I especially like the toony look and feel to it.
Also, for whoever asked, I think he made the pixel effect with some post proccessing with photoshop, you can add a layer effect, and with a big enough size, get "large’ pixels to add the wonderful effect!
Am I correct Drew?
-Spiffy
I don’t know about photoshop but in GIMP it is a distort filter called mosaic.
Does have a nice look.
Nice effect! How did you acheive the pixelation effect? It really adds that little bit extra to the image.
Cuby
Very nice, I like your composition and color matching
@Eaglebreath: Thanks a lot man 
actually, its the ‘patchwork’ filter on a cpoied layer of the pictur, then used a multiply filter…anda lot of other stuff.
@Blackboe: Ha, Im glad you like it I admire a lot of your work(read: those thugs guys), its cool to know people actaully like mine too…
@M@dcow: You are the new guy hence, first person.
@ugizsYour opinion is much appreciated. I actually played wiht a lot of filters and effects(many that produced extremely toony effects) but they mutilated the lighting, and destroyed any realisticity(in the broadest use of the word)created with AO, etc.
@spiffyandy:Thanks man Actually, I do realize that they arent all facing him for a reason…
Which Ill make up later 
The pixelated effect is achieved using layers, but no pixelation, actually a patchwork filter(similar to mosaic, but more blocky, not so harsh and cracked). Im glad you like the feel. It took a while to get the lighting and effects to feel right…
@Barion: I actually used ‘patchwork’ filters.
@Everyone: Thanks for all the crit and kind words. Im working on ideas to turn “Surreality” into something of a series…
Hopefully longer-living than the Free-ality project
Again, It would be great If you could vote. Im still working to get a piece in this site’s gallery…
Thank You All
peace
Drew
Oh, more posts
@Cuby: Look up
@spacestrudel: much appreciated man
Remember to vote…
And thanks to those who have
This is great. Well done. Only crit is that as has been said, they do apear to be looking slightly to the left of the camera
—Shamem
Thanks very much man Its the best when people enjoy your work.
I fail to see which one is the new guy, but the overall picture looks great, I like the tile effect.
Ha, you are the new guy. I guess the title doesnt make that clear enough…
renames
But thanks man
Remember to vote!
and about that facing straight him-thing. I think that their stares are good now. And that pixelated effect is the reason why all of them don’t look straight to him. or her aaargh, my english is bad so i can’t say what´s in my mind! But I think I made the point
Edit: 5* added And Free_ality, Remember to check my-not so cool work- named Opeth-satue. It’s on first page. I would be very glad
lol thanks man
Ill check out that statue…
Old old concept, that has been done, over and over again. But this one, for me, is one of the best that I have seen. Great composition. Lighting is fantastic and the overlay of the checkerboard really adds something to this that I can not really place right now. But I like it.
Excellent job.
BgDM
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Wow, thanks so much man. Its cool when you big guys comment on my stuff(oh, thats right, this is like the first time…).
I did realize the oh so cliche’d-ness of the concept(brand new phrase there), but Im glad I managed to pull it off I swear it was an accident.
Thanks again man, cool to hear form you
Drew