===== From sshaw@fas.harvard.edu: You certainly get credit for depth of research on your topic. I appreciate the design of your own people, rather than using Poser or some other program to create them. ===== From jerry@hoboes.com: Very nice; The ground looks more like miniature mountains than ground, and the people look very, very clean for being on a major dig. But otherwise a nice choice of scene and very good detail. Love the hats! ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: It looks like there is too much use of ambient color on the human figures. Texturing of landscape is ugly: was it all uniformly-colored mud?? ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: Not a bad composition, but the overall image remains dull, it has no striking 'eye catcher', just a dazzling flood of details, and a somewhat unimaginative lighting and camera positioning. While I appreciate some good modelling, it is a good rule of thumb to spend about the same amount of time on modelling, texturing and camera/lighting. The black smoke does not seem to come out of the chimney of the shovel but to be in the background somewhere. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: You're really a worker! ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Better-than-usual perspective and lighting create a dynamic image. Good work, Dave. Careful modelling, but too many of your trademark too-straight smoke plumes. Too intense color saturation (compare to 13hystri.jpg) distracts from the detailed modelling. By the way, the bridge is far more important to the image than you might think. It reinforces the sense of distance and perspective, while balancing out other portions of the scene. ===== From davidwilkinson@cwcom.net: Love the concept and the shovels. The history is also very interesting. As you say Dave, the figures still have some way to go. ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: Important history. Nicely detailed. The weakness is in the figures as it usually is with ray tracing. Well done though. ===== From 101741.541@compuserve.com: same qualities as usual (modelling, documentation, depth) same problems as usual (texturing, lighting) remember : sky is not blue; grass is not green, earth is not brown... ===== From bobfranke@halcyon.com: Dave, I can now recognize your steam powered equipment images because of one flaw. I think you need to improve the smoke and steam, it just doesn't look quite right to me. The research and attention to detail in the equipment is great. Also the development of the blob guys is coming along nicely. Great image ===== From r@pluto.icom-solutions.com: Notable for modelling