===== From trothgard@citywidesoftware.com: I love this image, the painted background, the fabric patterns, the texture of the fishes. ===== From cly@u.arizona.edu: Great job on the textures for the fish. I do like your technique of making it look like a painting, it's original. However, your method of making the background, I dislike. Secondly, the fishes look plastic. Is that your motiv, because I think that a real painting should make it look realistic, but should have a watercolor look to it. ===== From robbert@mintec.ca: Picking my jaw from the floor. Gorgeous! Love the background. Very different to the 3D nature of the main characters but it works. Textures are rich. The models are well done. ===== From klynn@telefish.net: If my dreams looked like this, I'd never wake up! ===== From kantell@qup.com: This is gorgeous! It looks like it should be on a poster. ===== From pokorny@attglobal.net: One of the more beautiful images in this round. Well done! ===== From r@hmb2-t3-1.mcbone.net: this is my favorite one - the image suggestives the feel of surrealism. strange, can't describe it but staring at for a long time - techs: the only thing i have to mention is that the leatherbuckles look like they don't fit right there. great pastell-optic. i could write a thousand lines and even cannot describe the feeling of this picture. good work ! Notable for modelling, composition, textures, lighting