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From markham@softcom.net:
very will done.  Textures and colors work well here.

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From cdsi26@bupers.navy.mil:
Glad you enjoyed your experience.  I work with a lot of powertools and the image
brings into focus a stark possibility.  I think about it each time I turn on
the table saw.  You definately went to some extremes for the rocks.  let us
know if you make the source code avail.

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From timk@jtse.com:
Great model. Great textures. Very well put together.

But just plain gross., not horrific. Another teen slasher pic?

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From ameede@madmac.com:
This artwork was done extremely well.  The composition is layed out in such a
way that the viewer is constantly drawn towards the center. The objects
themselves are amazing.  My only two gripes are the hacksaw is plastic looking.
Finally, the blood on the blade and on the ground lacks transparency, it also
appears plastic.  Nevertheless, the lighting placement could not have been done
any better, the placement of the smaller objects especially the ring adds to
the readability of the message, and the fact that you decided to create a small
version of the hacksaw helps bracket the piece.  Very very good.

ameede@madmac.com 



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From mark_poole2000@yahoo.com:
The gravel is well done.
The lighting might have been better coming from the side, unless you want to 
argue it is from a police crime-scene photographer's flash.

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From robertsc@accn.org:

Creating all objects by hand must have taken a long time. This image is very
detailed and there were many things I liked about it, like: 
the pebbles on the ground, the flies, the paint on the shed, the weeds, etc.
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From jake@snafu.de:
OUCH!!  good work on lights and textures

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From jrcsurvey@aol.com:
I really don't know what to say! There is something kind of psychopathic 
about devoting such tour-de-force realism to such a ( hackneyed ? ) blatently 
gruesome interpretation.  Some of the tromp l'oeil effects, especially the 
flies and gravel give a vaguely renaissance feel.  Disturbing.

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From dwallace@lynx.dac.neu.edu:
This one I like a lot.  You might want to try to make the gravel as a macro... I
think it will become quite popular.

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From tina@ripco.com:
Wow, this is really cool. The flies are a great touch. The paint job on the 
building is awesome, the kind of complex texture I suck so bad at & so usually 
envy. :) The rocks are lovely.

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From rbenjam2@tampabay.rr.com:
The finger looks a little large compared to some of the other objects.  The
detail and textures are superb.  The flies could have used a little work.

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From ericf@foothill.net:
This image has a nice mix of the explicit and the implicit.  The finger is very
well done, and the implication that there is more just out of sight is quite
effective.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Hmmm, what's happening here?  A hacksaw couldn't cut off a finger in one stroke,
so this cannot be a self-inflicted wound.  Somebody ELSE's finger was cut off. 
And the flies are here, indicating this happened some time ago.  But not too
long ago: the blood is still wet.  Sinister.  Yep, I'm running!

Some of the colors are too intense (such as the paint on the siding wood, and
the blue sawblade), distracting from the main focus of the scene.  Also the
lack of a cohesive color scheme (what is the dominant color here?  Red?  Blue?
Green? White?) adds visual confusion.  Maybe this was intentional.

Excellent attention to detail.  High tech scores for the amazing gravel and
cigarette butts.   The blade of grass should be UNDER the saw.  Perfect bottle
cap.  Fine dirt on the can.  Great work overall.

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
This is really good work.  The time that you put into the texturing really
paid off.  Improvements:  Those plants to the center of the picture look 
just a bit to bright green, maybe add some more yellow to the pigment or just
tone it down a bit say divide the whole pigment by 1.25 or something.  There
is a light below and to the left of the camera that is a bit to bright, I'd 
say try lowering the rgb value of this light to half or maybe less than what
it is now, I would have liked to have had the source code to rerender using
a lower value for that light, but the source wasn't included.  
Hope to see more of your work in the future.


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From file:
Oh, please!! How about trying again when you have an actual _original_ idea?
Notable for originality