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From emediez@emediez.com:
Fine political twist and excellent image.



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From :
I love the bugs, but I'm not so sure they work for this particular contest.

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From batronyx@cadronhsa.com:
Great lighting. I couldn't help but chuckle at the ant holding the antennae.
Great job as usual. :)

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From tony@awmcs.net:
Love the hair on the spider.

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From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu:
I like it.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Good concept, and a very nice scene.  The butterflies 
are beautiful and look fantastic!  The spider looks good, 
but the legs look a little too much like they're shaped 
out of pipe-cleaners to me.  Nice lighting and very subtle 
shadows here.

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From mwsny001@mweb.co.za:
Very nice!

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From tom@tomandlu.co.uk:
I loved this one - tops for concept. More work on the 
textures and the lighting would have pushed the other 
scores up (if you're using radiosity, it's nice but too flat).

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From chris_hormann@gmx.de:
I like that one very much, great work on modelling, textures and lighting,
very interesting concept. Maybe the shadows could have been slightly stronger.

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From youknow@ucan.foad.org:
Hmm. Different, at least. I tend to not associate monarchy
with worship but I'm aware that it has at least occsaionally
been the case. Your butterflies are very pretty.

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From albiaprime@aol.com:
Artistic: Very nice piece of work, even if it is of a tarantula!
Technical: Great job on the 'hair' for the spider.
Concept: A very unique interpretation of the topic.

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From delfeld@mailcity.com:
Epistemology:
This is just about as stupid a theme as I can imagine. 

Axiology:
 I hate puns.  I hate bright, cute furry things.

Ontology:
Some more helpful criticisms:
Dragging monarch butterflies by their feelers is like pulling some using hooks
in their fingertips, or eyeballs.  Gruesome.  Maybe a platform to pull them on
instead?

The lighting is a little ambiguous.  Is it indoors, under flourescent lights?  

Ants eat spiders.  Spiders eat ants.  One of the two groups would be eating the
other, or else trying to get away.  
Any monarch butterfly in it's right mind would fly away ("I'm not taking _this_
shit, that's for sure.")

Is there enough eyes on the spider?  Where are the ants' antenae?

Why is a spider wearing a crown?  Does he have a poetic liscense, maybe?

Look at the movement of a tarantula. . . the legs swing independently, give or
take.  This pose seems actually like the spider is not moving at all.  A more
dynamic pose would lend to the scene, I think.

Why are ants worhsipping the spider?  A poetic graduation certificate?  I keep
thinking back to the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, where Calvin starts a report on
bats by calling them bugs, and the class shouts back at him, "Bats aren't
bugs!!"


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From file:
Notable for lighting


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From file:
Notable for textures, lighting, composition, originality, modelling


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From file:
Notable for textures, lighting, composition, originality, modelling


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From file:
One of my favorites for the round! Although the ground and butterfly textures is
a little too simple, I really like the idea, and the cuteness of the insects.