I would change indulged to "engulfed". Makes more sense. haha. Cool effects on this one. The flames should be letting off more light imo though. ^_^
v2 is good, just a little too bright. try lighten+gaussian blur over a sharpened apply image? Erase parts you think are oversharpened/too blurry. lighting in v2 is messy with the brightness though. its eye catching i'll give you that.
looks like you just stuck some C4d's in a stock (mayBe added some blood?). I Suggest playin with the smudge setting and smudgin those bad boys to shape some fire. Put forth effort and time! This won't get you a place in the sotw >.< keep practicing
Actually, No i didnt not just add a C4D, i actually pen tooled a bit, smudged under the c4d, etc, this is around 35 layers.
what you may have done and what it looks like are two different things though >.> some of my tags are like 60 layers, but they look like sht.
I'm glad you didn't just add c4d, never said you did =] As Boa said, the reality of what it is and what it looks looks like are completely different. 35 layers mean nothing ^___^ See my siggy? Click it to view the full LP. It's only about 5 layers ^_^