===== From jknepley@chisp.net: One of the best concepts this round easily. ===== From loomsbury@yahoo.com: Very nice. I really like this idea. It looks good. The wall and door don't look right, but your pov sky looks nice. Perhaps something on the water would have been good too. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Very good start at the competition! Very nice, beautiful, interesting. Great detail. ===== From bonsalva@bellsouth.net: Really good and really original! ===== From tony@j4tb.com: I must say I am very impressed that you did all that work after only using POV for 3 months. I too remember these train sets. Probably the best IRTC first timer submission I've seen. (I'm a first timer too.) My only suggestion is to give the real city a little more smoothness. (Maybe some atmosphere.) ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: First image!!! This isn't Ice scating. We give marks based on the skill of the artist not the amout of time the artist has been doing it. With that in mind I gave you very good marks because I really like the concept. Looking forward to future entries from you. ===== From jd@surveyor.in-berlin.de: For the first entry, wow. I love the front part, but I don't get the background part. ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: Way cool. Loved it! ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: I loved this. My son's just getting into it. Beautifully done. Make an include. ===== From tglover@nettally.com: LOVE the track -- my son is into Thomas the Tank Engine (similiar to Brio) and you've got it DOWN. Quite nice work for a first-timer. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Excellent concept and execution, and the train tracks in particular stand out for me in their detail. I think the texturing on the wall and woodwork could use a little refinement, though. ===== From tonyv@iafrica.com: For a first go this is very, very good. ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: This is really fantastic. The modelling required to get the toy trains, plus the integration with the city in the distance, and the dissolve of the wall, is really impressive. The city itself looks great... like a real city, with suburbs and a central business district. The detailing is appropriate - the wooden floor is spot on. And the concept and application to the topic is truly inspired. This deserves to do well. I would suggest just a couple of things: The shadowing on the train set looks very dark - a more diffuse light source or radiosity would help here. And the skyscrapers show some annoying aliasing patterns which could probably be avoided with care. ===== From peter@table76.demon.co.uk: This is my favourite image from this round. ===== From file: Nice work (and evidently lots of it). ===== From file: Wow! This is my favourite image this round! Is this really your first image? The city is very well modeled, and the trains too, they look like the real thing. My only complaint is the blocks and the trains, they look to un-textured. Adding phong, reflect Notable for composition, modelling, originality ===== From file: Doing this without modellers is great. But you'd wrote some kind of modeller yourselve, do you? Well, but for that short time it's absolutely great. I'm playing around with pov for one year now and I haven't get that far. Congratulations! Notable for modelling, originality ===== From file: Funny Notable for composition, originality