===== From sonya_roberts@geocities.com: He's a cute puppet...reminds me very much of the sort of thing a child would draw. ===== From jroy@internauts.ca: I love the fact that you used Deluxe Paint to help you create the Image. I have used D Paint for years and it is a great software that not many other more recent ones can compare the way it's easy to use and the power. Good job. ===== From jgoeson@msn.com: The JPEG does not look terrible. This is a great picture! Also, I can sympathize with the actual sound effects of design. You were very accurate. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Darn, I discarded a very similar idea by fear to not give it the right look. Your realization is very close to my mental image for this idea, with the very simple backg, the courtains and the stupid puppet dancing madly. Really nice! Very artistic, original and tchnically well done. Hig rates for you! ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Oh, this is well done. I like the metal joints, the colored lights, the blurry shadow, the painted background, the hair. The red curtain is too ...smooth? ...close to the center of the image? ...obscuring the background? The strings are a bit too thick and definitely not attached to the right places. Very fine image. ===== From eallen@highway1.com: view.. frown.. vote.. view.. smile.. vote.. ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: Interesting idea... and courageous way of rendering! ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: Quite crude, but interesting, multicoloured lighting from top ... ===== From Martin.Magnusson.7121@student.uu.se: No, the image doesn't look terrible at all. ===== From arcana@sinbad.net: Nice image. :{) Some suggestions... The colored spots are having a bad affect on the wood texturing of the puppet. My first impression was how crappy the wood looked (as wood), then I saw the colored shadows on the stage. Maybe tone down the color saturation in the spots. ie, closer to a white ton, with a hint of each color. The clothes are great, but you've run into a problem. They come across as more of a part of the puppet, carved and painted, than as separate clothing. Again, great image. :{) ===== From r@dialup83.webbernet.net>: The yarnlike hair works very well. The grin needs painting. The clothes are good ... but those pants *can't* be comfortable! Notable for lighting, modelling, composition