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From digitalburn@totalise.co.uk:
very nice water - looks ke all the time paid off.

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From elvish_archer@mailcity.com:
the waves and the ripples are reallly really realistic I think u must add
lightning

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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
Call me picky, but I found Michael Hough's water tutorial *very* instructive.  I
don't know if it will work on isosurfaces, but I will definitely try it. 
Opaque water hit the art score.  BTW, the tutorial uses MegaPOV.



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From pbourke@swin.edu.au:
The best water I've seen so far. A simple scene that is believable.
I could almost smell the salt and feel the spray.

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From wagner-michael@web.de:
Wow! The water looks perfect. Absolutely realistic ... (18 for technical merit)







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From panthus@xtra.co.nz:
Excellent sea model, maybe too solid looking; maybe not, you say you tested a
lot of different textures. Something bright and metallic on the ship's prow
could have helped centre the viewer on it.
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From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt:
Stormy, but someway empty.
The sea and waves are great

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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:

Simple but effective.  Nice atmospheric affects.  Perhaps the boat fragments
needed some wake around them.
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From douge@nls.net:
The water surface is fantastic, both the texturing and the color.  The image
feels like it's missing something, though... 

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From bonsalva@bellsouth.net:

Great looking sea!
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From tony@j4tb.com:
Your efforts served you well the water really captures a stormy chaotic sea.
Though a creative work the image seems sort of simple. Add more debris floating
from the shipwreck.

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From emediez@emediez.com:
Ciertamente, tu trabajo llega. Aunado al sentimiento de p_rdida irreparable que
para todos los venezolanos, dentro o fuera del pa_s, signific_ esta tragedia
inimaginable, est_ el punto en el cual uno piensa y recuerda y vuelve a pensar.
De una u otra manera todos hemos sido tocados por este desastre. 
Felicitaciones por tu trabajo, porque a mi juicio, una imagen se sale de lo
com_n cuando logra transmitir algo. No es que yo sea venezolana, qu_ v_ -hasta
que me muera-; es que me gusta el enfoque. Una vez m_s, felicitaciones, y
espero disfrutar de m_s trabajos tuyos. Marjorie Graterol

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From gregj56590@aol.com:
Best-coded ocean I've seen.


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From vereb@mines.u-nancy.fr:
A sober picture - perhaps too much?

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From whhale@nvl.army.mil:
THe wea turned out well.  A little too subtle for my tastes.

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From bbowen@cswnet.com:
The hard work on the water texture is obvious. Nice job. I also like the camera
angle; helps add interest to an otherwise overly simple composition.

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From alun.thomas@convergys.com:
The wreck looks a little "plasticy", but I love that sea - the multifractal
works very well! How did you do the white foam on the water ? It looks like a
marble (crackle?) texture but looks more dense on the flatter bits of water -
is
this a slope dependant texture at work ?
  WinMegaPOV doesn't seem to want to read your MacMegaPOV files :-(  

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From angelaperry@webcombo.net:
A wonderful, melancholy image. The picture evokes such a downcast
emotion; the technical merit of the picture is so strong and accurate
that there is nothing to suggest you are not looking at a sad reality.
The tiny point of the lighthouse is a nice touch, too (lost when hope is
in sight). High marks and good luck!
~A. Perry

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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
That *is* *beautiful* (once I turn the brightness and contrast to almost
maximum).
I stayed looking at it for quite a longer time than most (all ?) other
submissions.
The sea looks so real, the best I have ever seen (sorry for some of the
previous images I rated, this one comes on top in that respect). Yes,
the shape of it, the texture of it, colours. There truly is an idea of
ever going motion.
The fog ambiance is just perfect for that scene.
Now what can you do better ? Hey you're not going to get away without
some comments for improvement ;-)
The wooden planks on a boat usually do not join that perfectly,
especially a sinking ship ;-) Maybe if we saw some irregularities in the
construct, that may make it better looking (more realistic I mean).

I rated the top few as follows (overall ranking) :
1/ Moby Duck
2/ Shipwreck near La Guaira
3/ Atlantic Still Life
4*2/ Sinking, Le Grand Bleu
5*2/ Missing Maine, The Great Wave
The others are well distanced.

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From jrcsurvey@aol.com:
I like the use of color.=20

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From rickh@net2u.com:

Excellent waves!
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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Nice turbulent water, does a good job capturing the feel 
of a stormy sea.  The scene itself seems a bit empty, 
although it would be hard to justify adding much seeing 
as it's in the middle of the sea... maybe a few more 
pieces of the boat floating around?

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
The sea is fantastic, great work there, but the texture needs some work, there
doesn't seem to be any reflection or specularity in there atall, and no matter
what the conditions you'd expect the water to have some of both. 

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From went@netcourrier.com:
A very beautiful image. But maybe a bit dark.

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From delfeld@mailcity.com:
Excellent waves.  They actually remind me of the ocean during rough seas.  The
transparency of the texture is realistic, and lighting and fog lend to the
ominous tone.  Well done!  What's next?
The reason I gave a 13 for the last category is that I don't find the idea you
explained in your text file brought across.  It is too generic to be that
specific tragedy.  Expressive realism demands more specific symbols,
unfortunately.  But you are such a good 3d texture artist that the symbolism
may not be the direction you should head with this.  Who knows?


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From file:
I really like the pointed shape of the water surface. A nice break from the
common sine-wave style.