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From digitalburn@totalise.co.uk:
very nice lighting + texturing, nice and photorealistic. what the fossiles are
in is perhaps a little shiny.



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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
Suggestions for completing the scene: ship in a bottle, anchors, mounted fish on
plaques, etc.



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From pbourke@swin.edu.au:
As the author admits, it is a work in porgress.
Bits that don't quite go together as a whole.

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From luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com:
the globe is simply amazing! very cool idea

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From panthus@xtra.co.nz:
What is in there is excellent, but maybe a bit empty. I especially like the wood
and the base of the globe (the play of light and the reflection of the
wireframe above). Australia seems to be almost at the south pole (let alone New
Zealand)?

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From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt:
Beautifull!!

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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:

I liked the concept.  I think a bit of dirt and or playing with less ambient
light would have helped.
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From douge@nls.net:
Nice looking image.  That render time is insane!

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From tony@j4tb.com:
Your globe looks really great. A nice description on how it was done.
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From bbowen@cswnet.com:
Good job. I'll agree with your assesment of the desktop, but hey, you tried.

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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
Very good, original too.
You don't come first in any rating but very close to it and you end up
being one of the top ones with me ;-))

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:
One thinks of the expanding interest in natural sciences in parallel with th=
e great age of sailing ships

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Beautiful globe... an excellent piece of work.  The 
fossils look good too, and add a nice touch.  The 
connection to the sea topic doesn't really come across 
unless one is looking for it, though.

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
This is an interesting image.  I can't imagine that photons would make any
difference, jsut increase render time.  The surrounding object of the fossils
looks a bit too shiny and seems to contrast a bit too much with the actual
colour of the fossils themselves.  The colour of the desk is a bit too close
to the colour of the globe, a darker wood with a larger scale grane may work
better and give a less CG feel to it.

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From delfeld@mailcity.com:
The explanation seems better than the image, unfortunately.  Maybe you should
take up writing.  I don't mean this as an insult.  The image is nice
technically, and does seem to be a work in progress.  As it stands, it reminds
me of almost every single display I have ever seen of some biological specimen
in a glass case at college (I hope that doesn't disturb you profoundly!)  You
do nice work with the 3D technical aspects - you seem to have the ability to
look at a problem and come up with a nice, even unexpected, solution.  I hope
to see a completed work soon. . .


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From file:
Seems incomplete, unbalanced. What is the environment?
Notable for textures, modelling, lighting


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From file:
Nice globe. I also like the image's color scheme.