===== From skipt1@aol.com: Nice concept, artistically pleasing, good use of height fields. The plants take away from the scene though. Their flatness, much like a game would have, and even some texture distortion is quite obvious. Pretty good image overall. ===== From noe.falzon@tiscali.fr: Thanks for all the description of how it has been created ! You're rare ! ===== From rgow@lanset.com: A good concept and good ground textures. IMO would benefit from lower camera angle to make the town stand out. There appears to be artifacts on the background height_fields. ===== From i-mcnamara@cornellcollege.edu: A very good work. I like the idea of having more than just an empty desert landscape (not that there is anything wrong with that) and the ruined buildings really do help create a sense of being alone. The plants, especially those that are farther back from the camera look pretty good, and the hills in the background look good (apart from a few slight shadowing errors (?)). Oh, and I love the sky. I'm not sure if it would help, but a bit more shadowing might work to make the Saloon building seem a bit more 3D. As it is, the bright outside distracts my eye from the rest of the picture. I'm starting to sound artistic, so I'll wrap this up. It_s a great picture, and I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future. ===== From enrique.sahagun@uam.es: a very interesting sky ===== From ericf@foothill.net: I grew up near a ghost town, an empty place of seveal old houses, so I wish I liked this image more. I think its the textures that just don't work for me. Especially something different for the hills, to differentiate it from the flat. The texture on the houses was also just too monolithic for my tastes. ===== From raytracing@grayproductions.net: Definitely a nice image. It's obvious you put a lot of thought and time into it. The ground texture gets a little repetitive in the rear and the building don't stand out quite as much as they could, but these are minor complaints. Great work. ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: Maybe the mountains needed their own image_map. They look just like the valley badlands. ===== From file: Need light Notable for composition