===== I thought Lens Flare was against the rules? ===== Wow, that vortex is mindblowing ===== babylon 5 is the best show, just as good as tng ===== Flaring is not a ray traced effect -- the renderer adds it afterwards. This is a RAY TRACING competition. This image, although pretty, is not "in the spirit of the competition." Your ships are simplistic, and I'm not impressed with your ability to use LightWave's particle systems. ===== WOW THIS IS THE BEST DAMN PIC I HAVE SEEN IN MY ENTIR... Hey this is mine ===== The best one I've seen so far ===== Applauses ! ===== Very true to the series ===== remember buddy, no lens flare ===== You see, Lens Flare is just a mistake in this competition. We all read the rules buddy... ===== nice image!, but it Looks to me like you violated one of the rules?? (rendererd-only images, no touchups, you used adobe camera filter?) or does lightwave do this?! ===== I like the jump gate, but that wasn't original. The ships aren't from B5, so the scene is off for me. ===== Great looking picture! ===== Gosh, I wish I could afford Lightwave so I could also take someone else's professional models to use in an amateur contest. I'd be disappointed if Lightwave didn't give its users enough power to be original. The original components, the ships, look way too "atmospheric" to be convincing spacecraft. More like bulky modern fighter jets. The overall image looks pretty good, but I'm not convinced that's the fault of the artist. ===== Yep, looks like a lightwave image to me... Maybe it's just the presence of ye olde jumpe gate. texturing is good, lighting is also good. ===== Nice idea. Unfortunately, the best part of this picture (the jumpgate) is not the artist's work... ===== Very nice atmos ===== Nice work! The weapons look a bit dull, but I have no other complaints! ===== Great looking vortex! ===== If you got it all from the net, you would have gotten ones. Good for you to model the ships yourself. To use the net is cheating. I don't beleave though that you compleatly raytraced this. If you used a plug-in to do the flare then you also cheated. It looks to fake, sorry. ===== it's the B5 jumpgate! cool! ===== Very good ===== The greatest image i've seen til here Bravo!! ===== Downloded major part of image with very little modification very little originality ===== This looks like Babylon 5...probably the best sci-fi series ever made! I love it! ===== Well I think your background sky could use some work it looks blury, The ships could also use some work atleast some form of texture. ===== That explosion is brilliant. The 'weathered' (how do space ships get 'weathered' anyway ;^) ) look is a very nice touch. ===== like this image, saved it as wall paper. dual lens flares do not look realistic however. or i would have given it higher on technical ===== Love the jumpgate, though finding out it was a stock model diminished it somewhat. The ships were nice, though.