===== Nice conceptual piece - and what a LOVELY shaped bottle. Expect e-mail shortly... ===== What happened to works that are rendered solely for the competition being entered? ===== out of subject, this is science-art not science-fiction. ===== I like this picture. (good detail in base of bottle :) I would have liked to see the camera moved like 10 degrees to the left (maybe not, just an idea) ===== A little plain. It baically looks like you are just showing off your model. ===== There is a similar image on ftp.povray.org that was the "title" image for the Povray homepage. You might want to try looking at that. Something that should considerably reduce the size of your source file is using either a "lathe" or surface of revolution object. In these, the data is stored in the form of an outline to be rotated instead of as a complete mesh. ===== Not very Sci-Fi ===== Just curious : Are you a biology student or something like that ? ===== LOOK OUT!! LOOK OUT!! your bottle is about to tip over and spill all that valuable research :) ===== Sci-fi or just science? Nature created the model. But original. (put it in a futuristic, crome-plated hell next time) ===== I was just about to give this 2 points for "concept", but the artist tried so hard trying to convince me that it was SF, so I give it a ten. ===== I like the bottle. ===== More light sources would help this image BIG time. Especially since you've got the horsepower! Florescent colored (slightly blue) area lights in a multi-inline arrangement (like a real overhead light) along with more than one halogen colored spot. How would they light this in a real gallery? And you really should make the bottle hollow. ===== Good concept. Very attractive image--great marble textures.