===== From jknepley@chisp.net: Gaaa, uh, duh, um, eh... darn... that's really realistic. Excellent use of fog and exceptional use of texture maps. I'm stunned... ===== From loomsbury@yahoo.com: This is beautiful. I don't like the fact that you didn't use your own models for the cars and the Chrysler building, but it looks very nice. Great work. ===== From pmccombs@hotmail.com: Best textures yet. Masterful use of megapov. The way you bring the pieces together here is seamless and remarkable. Though you used pre-made models and texture maps, the image is uniquely yours. Well done. Still, I'd like to see you do it without any image maps :) ===== From scarmig@ohmss.com: Ahh crap. Another winner. ===== From tony@j4tb.com: Incredible!! If I wasn't told I would have assumed you took a picture of a New York scene and submitted it! Only minor things are wrong the walker seems blurry and the font for the "Don't Walk" sign is wrong. I really had to work hard to find anything wrong with this image. This is the most realistic scene I have seen yet. ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: I had to pinch myself to ensure that I was looking at a Raytrace...then I remembered who the artist was;-}. Great Job. You got my vote. one question. on the streetlamp, The support struts appear broken and jagged as a result of the trace. is this due to the small size of the object or the settings of the final trace? ===== From jd@surveyor.in-berlin.de: Wow, one of the top three, at least! ===== From Stickgod01@aol.com: What city did you take this photograph in? (: Incredibly realistic, it's just too bad such a important part of the scene, the cars, were made by someone else. ===== From christophe.bouffartigue@libertysurf.fr: Simply the best image produced with povray I've ever seen... My favorite for this round. Et j'adore cette bouche a incendie... :) ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: Wow, nice job! Very photo like. ===== From mwsny001@mweb.co.za: Unbelievable! ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: What can I say? There has been a lot of discussion on the photo-realism of this image; that wasn't my response. It has a real ambience about it, and the wonder to me is how you achieve such humanity with your images. Very different from your usual style. I think there's an image of James Dean that it reminds me of. ===== From jrcsurvey@aol.com: Feels like New York to me! ===== From djohnston@iname.com: Great work! I think you acheived your goal in creating a feel of realism with this image. The lighting is excellent, especially the way the "artificial" lights (brake lights, the street lights etc.) work well with the darkened sunlight. ===== From annie.kane@mindspring.com: Very realistic, almost photo quality...Great Job! ===== From tonyv@iafrica.com: This is a 'Wow' picture. You have set the standard for all future IRTC competitions. The attention to detail is wonderful, and really puts the pressure on other people to raise their games. (Will we see the day when the competition is split into two levels?) I also think that you have started a trend where people will start using fewer procedural textures, and spend a lot of time finding the exact image_map. Because it seems that image_maps, when correctly used, give much better results. ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: I don't know how anyone is going to beat this one this round. That's really all I have to say, without gushing superlative praise for the modelling, textures, detailing, lighting, composition, interpretation of topic... etc... ===== From patrick.joyal@sympatico.ca: tr_s beau travail! C'est comme si on y _tait. ===== From file: One of the best I ever saw, excellent! You should write a tutorial/book about your techniques!!! Notable for lighting, modelling, composition, textures ===== From file: What can I say? You've outdone yourself, Gilles. Notable for composition, lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: What can I say? You've outdone yourself, Gilles. Notable for composition, lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: What can I say? You've outdone yourself, Gilles. Beautiful! Notable for composition, lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: What can I say? You've outdone yourself, Gilles. Beautiful! Notable for composition, lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: This is the best I have seen in ages, it had better win guys.. Notable for composition, textures ===== From file: Notable for lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: one of the most real looking 3D images I ever saw! Notable for composition, lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: very good work, my first choice Notable for composition, lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: Absolutly Amazing! Nearly fotorealistic! Notable for composition, textures, modelling ===== From file: This is the best computer generateed image I have ever seen. And believe me, I am very critical of these things. Notable for originality, composition, lighting, textures, modelling ===== From file: I am sure that you will receive many -deserved, by the way- comments about the photorealistic quality of your image. I agree with all of them also. The thing that really impresses me is the artistic approach of all your work and especially this image. Being Art (digital even more) so complex not only for the artist but for the viewer itself, a definite imprint of a master is the ability to question the inner thoght. My pretty sincere congratulations and admiration. It is also remarkable the way you explain it -in the making of- because it is also a sign of being a non-complicated artist, this is, a real artist. Keep On! Notable for composition, lighting, textures, modelling