===== From digitalburn@totalise.co.uk: Nice ship, the rest looks a bit dodgy. ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: Aliasing hit the art. ===== From pbourke@swin.edu.au: Very good ocean wave, good "dirty' ship. Excellent alive image. ===== From luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com: excellent model, very interesting waves ===== From wagner-michael@web.de: This one is really great. I like the ship and especially the waves. And the sources work ... ===== From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt: The boat is great, but the sea is very weird Composition is perfect ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: Nice image but the sky needed to be something different looked to much like the ocean. ===== From douge@nls.net: Those lines are a little pixelated... no aa? ===== From tony@j4tb.com: Very nice ship brought your tech rating up alot. Your water looks like it is glowing in the light spots. The sea looks very stormy but the sky looks too calm to create winds for those kind of waves. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: The bottom half of the image is perfect, beautiful, brilliant. I don't like the texture of whatever is on the top half: is it the sky or calmer water?? ===== From nitschk@ranke.be.schule.de: The water is very well created. Looks real. ===== From a.swan@ucl.ac.uk: Amazing modelling, but anti-aliasing would have REALLY helped here ===== From frepe@ifm.liu.se: Amazing that you did all this in Moray/Povray. Beautiful! But WHY didn't you use more antialias when you just had a rendertime of 60 min? Please render it again with aa 3x3 at least. ===== From bbowen@cswnet.com: Great pic. I suggest next time you use antialiasing. ===== From alun.thomas@convergys.com: Great image, shame about the aliasing effects on the "thin" details (the lines on the sails, rigging, etc. ). The sea looks terriffic. ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: The sea is very well done. I like the ship too. I don't like the sky. Good composition. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Definitely a good effort. The ship is very detailed and looks good. The rigging on the ship and the sky have a very ragged look to them which makes them appear muddled and detracts from the beauty of the scene. ===== From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk: This is an impressive image with a real grany-hand painted feel to it. About the only thing that I'd change in this image is the sky, it seems to blend in with the sea a bit too much, so more contrast in the colours used between sky and sea might improve the image considerably, I'd say make the sky much darker but try to keep the sea the way it is. The image has such a feeling of movement about it, you can just imagine that you're there standing on the deck getting soaked to the skin. The modelling on the ship is great aswell. ===== From delfeld@mailcity.com: What's the Baltimore got to do with me? But the ship is a good model, and I like what you have done with the elements. Very dramatic, so I wouldn't be too surprised if you weren't the winner. Sails create very directive lines, yet they stay contained within the ship because of all the cross angles. After all, the ropes already connect everything together, visually. The waves keep the focus, and the only fault seems to be the lack of distinction betweeen sea and sky, which is a little more pronounced in reality. But again, what's the point? Even ships wear me out unless I have a reason to see them. . .