===== From nitro_glis@yahoo.com: concidering the contravercy surounding your image, I rated it very low on concept only becuase you didn't think up the concept for this round, simply used it becuase it fit, however, I can't argue that it does look good, so I bumped your AM up and you TM is bout average. :) I've noticed the IRTC goes for originality and hard work, it turns out looking goo too thats a plus. I would concentrate on those more than getting a good looking image into the competion. keep up the good work bro! ===== From philip.chan@home.com: The scene almost looks real! A closer view of your minatures would be nice. ===== From beliaev@utu.fi: The image looks a bit as if it was a phograph. From your description there's a lot of things unclear to me. However, I have no proof that this has not been raytraced or rendered, so I give you the marks (quite high) a raytraced/rendered image of that kind deserves. ===== From thomas_alun@lineone.net: Technically. this is staggering! I had to look quite closely to convince myself that you hadn't entered a photograph - the only flaws I could see were the lack of motion blur on the dice, and caustics from the flying stand. ===== From lrwii@joplin.com: Hand looks real. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Nice composition, and good interpretation of topic. The dice look a bit odd to me (kind of like the sides bulge out, and no depth to the spots.) Texturing on the hand looks good. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Good models and overall realism. Good integration of foreground and background using focal blur. I like the soft shadows, but they seem to be choppy in places. Is it me, or is the forearm cut off at the upper right corner of the image? ===== From tm-ray@consistent.org: This looks like a photograph. Of course, the fact that the top third *is* a photograph doesn't hurt, but the figures and hand are nonetheless really good.