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From rjhansen@hotbot.com:
Nice idea. Your water is awfully grainy appearing. The bears a kind of stiff and
posed looking, always a problem with organic shapes.

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From Stickgod01@aol.com:
although the idea and most of this image is well done, proportionally, it's off.
The whales tails a ways back huge compared to the polar bears. Whales are big,
but not THAT big.

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From warp@iki.fi:
The sky is a bit too simple; the regular bozo pigmented clouds. Doesn't look
quite good.
The noise in the image is a bit annoying (although doesn't lower the score
being an artistic effect).
There are square patterns on the heightfield that don't look quite natural.
All the bears are identical (except for the size). You should have made them
in more different positions.

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From luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com:
Nice, funny image, a cool scene, I guess the water and the sky could be
improved, but in generl it's nice.

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From mark.wagner17@gte.net:
Where'd you find a copy of POV-Ray 3.2?  The current 
official version is only 3.1g!

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From chris_hormann@gmx.de:
Much potential in this scene, good modelling of the animals,
water and sky texturing need more attention. You should consider higher
resolution heightfields.

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From jouni@mikrobitti.fi:
You're counting a lot on your height fields, which I think deprived the image
of some depth and detail. Although the Arctic regions are bare, they probably
are not that bare. The water is also a bit bright and clear: wonder if the sea
is truly that romantic there? 

The elements you have introduced into the image provide a good start for the 
submission, but a true classic could've used some more detailed elements. Yet,
it's a nice and artistic view of the polar region.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
This really seems to capture the feel of a barren arctic 
shoreline.  All of the animals looks good, and the land 
itself is nice, although the way the darker areas show up 
as somewhat 'rectangular' in spots is a little distracting.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
I really like the poses on the bears, except for the one stiffly tilted on 
the left side.
The birds are good, but the whales seem to be too large, out of proportion.
Some pixellation on the height fields.

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From albiaprime@aol.com:
Artistic - The only thing that seems to spoil this picture is the whale tails. 

           Perhaps it is the fact that they contrast so much with the rest of
the
           image that the eye is drawn to them.  It may have worked better if
           the whales had been surfacing with the spray of the blow holes
showing.
Technical - I like the penguins (oops, I mean albatrosses). The polar bears are
           not bad although I keep seeing them as sheep :o( especially the one
           on the extreme right.
Concept - Definitely a wilderness.


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From file:
I like it. It makes a very good composition, but that bear on the left, standing
on a slope, looks really wrong..