very nice)

Thanks w-alligator, and to everybody else for the comments.
I know it must be annoying as this was almost disqualified, I'm sorry :/
Your entry was very cool btw.
@ BBill: I agree, shading is a tad overdone, espc. on the old lady zombie.
@ Adam: Yea, colors would've improved it, My initial idea was to go with a bluish lightsource from right and a yellowish from the molotov, didn't have the time unfortunatly . Nice edit btw.
@ Everyone who mentioned it, yea the lightning could've used some dithering or something to break it up.

congratulations vedsten, looks like the better artist won.  drat it all!

i'd like to see you do better.


Grats on first place vedsten.

Awesom shading work... I always find gray a difficult color to shade properly. Same as brown. 5/5.

I personally think the monochrome PLUSRED look is overdone.
And I think the living fellow could use some teeth showing.
My favorite is the the zombie veiled in darkness towards the back.

I think this one's my favorite. Cool lighting effects.

This truly is reminiscent of George Romero's NOTLD and captures the Zombie mythos perfectly. My only crit would be to add a dash of red, the blood on the door frame would be perfect for it.

i vote for him, it's not like he edited a old piece in my eyes. He completely re-did it so its a completely new work

Awesome vibe.   

very nice, maybe some red color areas are missing on your piece.

Dithering on the lighting might help, but I don't know if it would make it look a little sloppy or not.. I like it though, you did very good at capturing their expressions. 4/5

good stuff - i like the lights and the resulting atmosphere a lot

Definately gets my single vote... its amazing.

I'm also a rule nazi, and partly to blame for not correcting this breach in time.  That is the only reason this didn't get my vote as well.  Great work, definitely gets a +fav from me.

Great as always, love the lightning on the zombie in the back. Best entry in the contest, though I'm a rule-nazi so cant vote for you. :/

Superb chance of this winning - looks amazing.

Very nice job!  Same crits as before posts, but also the man's mouth looks too square for my liking.

great job there :D ....

Really great atmosphere ! Perhaps you could have put some dithering on the wall and around the flame, but the pic is already great.

Classic!

Wow! I really like this one! It reminds me of night of the living dead. Great shading, and a cool composition!

excellent shading with all that black and grey, looks like an old movie scene lol great job

Amazing work. Love your work with light&shadow ...:) Really great.:) Fav'd, 5/5!

I really like this. Awesome job!

Wonderful piece indeed!!!

Oh this definitely has my vote. 6/6 and fav'd. I'll try and come up with useful AA sometime.

Looks great. One of my votes for sure. I like the threshold quantized shading, though I think some colors would have spiced up this piece even more.

Ok, I thnk this deserves to be 1st place in the challenge.

FAV'D

dang! This is so freakin' nice it looks fake.  not saying it is, its just looks great!

very nice! favin

Some bits look a bit too smooth and plastic-like. I love it overall though.

Very nice!