it's not ideal, but hopefully you can get something out of this edit.

Some thoughts:
- Odedrt9 is right, shine goes a long way towards making it look metallic
- In general, metal is very high contrast, push those values up and down more
- Another thing that helps for metal is bounced light, you can see this in your references. especially useful on your raised details.
- You should work on a gray background rather than white, bright backgrounds distort how you see colors
- Try not to use interior outlines, especially on a piece this small. You need all the pixels you can get to make it believable.

I think that's it. Of course, there's lots of ways to make things shiny, stylistically speaking. Looking at it again, my edit may read more as plastic than metal. Experiment a bit to find a way that works for you.

 Danielclarc, thanks for the pizza, haha! Love it. 

And great work everyone! Happy holidays!

Time for my favorite holiday tradition! 

likes
-cheese pizza
-original art
-cute things
-spooky (note: not scary) things
-colorful things
-sexy people of all genders (especially heavily stylized)
-mythology (eastern or western)
-cheese pizza
-akihiko yoshida style armor/clothing
-testsuya nomura style anything
-dramatic lighting
-hyperbole
-minimalism
-combination of any of the above

dislikes
-sci fi
-sports
-bugs
-blood/gore
-poetry
-houndstooth
-argyle
-plaid
-caricatures
-winter
-dreamworks films
-aliens
-anything underwater
-abstract art
-regressive stereotypes
-8bit palette restrictions

I try to be more specific every year, but I'm worried the list has gotten a bit too long, haha.

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Animations:






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