===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: My main complaint is the general lack of texture detail. ===== From pbourke@swin.edu.au: Not bad geometric work but the overall effect is too artificial for my liking. Weird idea with the tail :-) ===== From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt: Powerless image ===== From douge@nls.net: Hey, you stole my topic idea (sirens)! Nice image! ===== From tony@j4tb.com: The tile floor must have been difficult. The other siren looks more like a picture perhaps if you made the porthole inverted that would look more like a window. A small streach on the topic. ===== From bbowen@cswnet.com: I generally like the idea. I wish you had utilized your renderer's ability to use a background image so your compositing work would all be within the render. I don't think using photoshop this way is allowed in the competition. It's a nice image overall. I think your siren tails need some better texturing. ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: funny idea. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: I like the concept for this one a lot. The painted tile floor looks very good, and adds a nice touch. Most of the objects are well-shaped, although the tub could use some work. ===== From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk: The text file waffled on far too much without saying anything in particular. The image should be good enough to tell it's own story. ===== From delfeld@mailcity.com: The only reason I gave you a low tech score was the post-editing in Photoshop. Try using a different renderer, like POV-Ray, MegaPov, or BMRT. You can translate objects using Keith Rule's "Crossroads". All of these are free, and work well with most popular operating systems and machines. I have had a lot of weird problems and crashes with 3DS-Max back in UW-Platteville. I don't think it is a good program, and it is the most incomprehensible of Lightwave, TrueSpace, and SoftImage. You might be able to render your scene in one of those - Lightwave would be in your budget if you can afford 3ds-Max. The composition is a little ambiguous, I think because of the lighting and ambience, as well as the high contrast in the floor tiles. The feminity of the siren is rather cliched, but does come across.