===== From rgow@lanset.com: Kewl! Great job on the landscape! ===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: Those rocks are ludicrously detailed! Really really nice interesting shapes :) The castle looks a little artificial, maybe it should be a bit dirtier. But other than that most of the image looks nearly photographic! ===== From shay@simcoparts.com: The hills and plants are amazing! Almost too much so. The castle and figure look a little plastic like in comparison, but I understand that you needed the extra challenge. You have blown every Teragen and Bryce entry away. Worth every second of that render time. The level of detail in the rocks is just SICK. I feel like I could reach out and touch this one. ===== From chris@ugan.com: Wow your rocks and grass are truly amazing. The man on the flying capet and castle seem to be afterthoughts though. They don't look like you gave them as much attention as the landscape itself. A better way for me to explain myself, is that the man on the flying capet and castle seem to be compositied in to a landscape photograph and not incorperated. ===== From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com: I like this entry a lot... And even though the landscape probably doesn't exist, it still could exist... ===== From rich@brickbots.com: A great image! The rug is a bit strange, it was difficult for me to figure out it's relation to the rest of the scene, spatially. I finally located the shadow (I think) and that helped pin it down. Having the carpet bit lower, with the shadow closer at hand might integrate the image better. ===== From llama009@hotmail.com: brilliant ===== From juanjcampos32@hotmail.com: The details of the passage and the gatekeeper are wonderful. Perspective, lightsourcing, and light intensity give credence to the arid desert theme. ===== From ruy@hipernet.com.br: Freud would love to analyze the phallic symbolism of this image... Great work (as always). ===== From batronyx@alliancecable.net: The blob hand clashes way to much with the otherwise stunning realism. The rocks and plants and lighting, are the best. Having seen some of your past work though, I expected no less. :) ===== From charliemc@prodigy.net: awesom ===== From martin@simaltech.com: Excellent job on the photo-realistic stone. The plants are a bit off (too green, I think) and the tree and person/carpet don't blend in properly (something about the lighting...) But these nitpicks only stand out because of the great overal quality of the image! ===== From 25ct@lineone.net: As ever, nice terrain. I thought the concept of your image is good. ===== From jschmi@optonline.net: The ground looks so realistic! ===== From jrcsurvey@aol.com: The magic carpet gives us an involvement in the landscape, floating through it, that is spectacular. It is a good reminder at how commonplace such an experience has become for us through modern technology. ===== From clem@dhol.org: Very picturesque rocks. The carpet doesn't really look like it is airborne. Perhaps some ripples around the edges would help. A corner obscuring part of the rock column about halfway up would help the illusion too. ===== From ive@lilysoft.com: Shouldn't the carpet have a more wave-like shape and not be so flat like still resting on the ground? But well, I do not know that much about the aerodynamics of flying carpets. -Ive ===== From jimbobjim@blueyonder.co.uk: This is a great image, although I think you should reconsider the umbrella. I'm not sure if this was the effect you were going for, but the castle looks a little out of place, and perhaps borders on being Disney. ===== From p_chan@shaw.ca: The texturing and modelling of the terrain is done very well. The flying carpet is also done very well, but the human figure seems out of proportion to me (short and yet with long arms/legs). ===== From glenn@mccarters.net: Amazing rendering time, blows my mind. Something odd about the lighting/shadows here, as if the carpet is = "pasted on" the image. ===== From hgregory3a@aol.com: nicely done for hand built land scape. technically challenging and nice effort high marks! ===== From r@168-215-245-100.gen.twtelecom.net: This could have been a great picture but some elements seem out of place in this picture. Notable for modelling, textures