===== From flabreque@videotron.ca: Simple, yet effective. You should have rotated the pawn and the bishop a bit. The wood textures should NOT be perfectly aligned. ===== From charliemc@prodigy.net: U must like chess. ===== From hgregory3@aol.com: Artistic - Excellent 1st Entry. Quality wooden chess pieces and board. Technical - Unfortunately you didn't make any sort of a description of how you built what. Thus mid range marks for technical. Concept - Definitely a contrast here!!! ===== From steve@neurotrain.com: A 15 T 12 C 10 Not much to be added , the scene is quite simple. The one brain tickling thing is that all the black squares are identical, as are the white ones. Also the wood grains line up perfectly with the pieces Technical: in a scene this simple, small things count large. To avoid the repetitive squares, either generate 64 unique textures (I woundn't) or create two large boxes that perfectly overlap. give one a white and the other a brown/black texture, then group the sixty four boxes you have already made into two groups of 32 and difference them out of the appropriate large box. Also try rotating the wood grain texture slightly so the lines are not 90 degrees perfect on the pieces Good concept. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Nice shaping, although the pieces seem too short. Nice wood textures. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: What's the other scene? ===== From hfventer@ing.sun.ac.za: Wonderful concept! One comment tho. The chess pieces seem a bit squat. I get the feeling they should be taller. Great texturing. ===== From beliaev@utu.fi: Just a remark. As far as I understand it, when the wood is turned on a lathe, the wood fibers would be parallel to the axis of rotation. ===== From file: lovely textures