===== From charliemc@prodigy.net: Good idea. ===== From steve@neurotrain.com: A 19 T 18 C 20 Very good. Layout is beautiful and I find the lighting very realistic. The one point lost is because the sand is too perfect. around the objects. Technically it is very very good. However, again the lack of ridges of sand along the edges of all the objects lost you points. More than artisitic, because these are more a technical problem. It is painstaking, but when I've a similar situation, I hand brighten the areas on the jpg bump maps to raise them slightly... Concept is perfect. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Nice rippling effect on the sand. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Good contrasts. Ship looks like it belongs to the Bounty Hunter(tm), which puts the viewer in a Star Wars(tm) frame of mind, washing out the contrast effect. A homemade ship (with the nice reflective textures) would work better here. Good weathered rock textures. Is the statue embedded in the sand, or balanced on top of it? ===== From hfventer@ing.sun.ac.za: If the space ship (Slave 1 if I am not mistaken) didnt have all one texture, it eould have been much better. ===== From mark.wagner17@gte.net: You would get a higher technical merit score (and your image would look better!) if you created the spaceship yourself rather than using a pre-made model. Additionally, the relative scales of the spaceship and the statue are all wrong. The spaceship should be significantly larger than the statue. ===== From file: I nice image, but I think it relies too heavily on refab models and textures.