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From bobfranke@halcyon.com:
The trees are pretty good and I like the sky.  Also the 
snow on the ground and the two snowpersons are pretty 
good.  The biggest areas for improvement are the beam 
of light and the smoke.  Try experimenting with media.  
The light shaft should have softer edges.  Improving the 
smoke is a harder task.

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From ande8545@blue.unco.edu:
Very good image.  Might it look any better if the snow kept going out of the
chimney instead of stopping?

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From newkirk@snip.net:
Trees are too regular, wood texture on logs would be better as bark,


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From kniazfam@ohio.net:
It's a cute idea.  I think you need to make things seem 
less starch and bare.  The snowmen could appear more 
like snow and less like spheres.  Also, I bet you could 
make the snow more thick and "magical".  :-)

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From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com:
Great idea and a lot of good work went into it.  There are some technical
difficulties with the snow on the trees and the smoke.  The best thing is the
two snowmen.  I think the heart made of stars is distracting and doesn't help
get your message across.  There is a lot of potential here!

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From dick@buckosoft.com:
Nice pine trees.
The Heart stars are in front of the smoke?

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
This would make a nice Christmas card.  Unusual viewpoint -- is the camera on a
ladder?
Generic purple POV-Ray sky is unimpressive.  A real overhead spotlight with
atmosphere might be nice, if you could afford the rendering time.

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From djconnel@flash.net:
Promising scene!  However, it's a bit flat... Look at H.E. 
Day's image
for how to use lighting and texture to achieve a sense of 
depth in an image.

The snow-flake-heart is a cute touch.

One small note.... I don't see any signs this
is a "first" encounter.

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From east103@dialaccess.com:
Made me smile.  Smoke dosen't really seem to fit in and there are object
edge lines or something like that on the lower left.

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From ethelm@bigfoot.com:
Would make a good Xmas Card!
An entertaining image.

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From blaineholmes@hotmail.com:
Cute scene.  Very detailed.

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From wozzeck@club-internet.fr:
This makes one of the best POVRay greeting cards I ever saw.
Not a single bit of realism, but perfect in its own style.
Technically, somewhat perfectible (artifacts on the ground, smoke, too regular
trees...)

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From clem@dhol.com:
The idea is a bit cute for my taste, but not bad.  Four 
sided snowflakes?  They must be magic! :)  In any case, 
this image contains some nice modelling and some 
clever touches.  The trees are well done, except that 
they are far too regular and it is too obvious that they 
are clones.  The rounded top is a mistake, too.  I do like 
the snowy branches and the suggestion of bark on the 
trunk.  The snowmen are routine but ok, except possibly 
for the excessive roundness and regularity of the 
snowballs that form them.  On the other hand, the well 
worked and somewhat melted snow on the ground is 
very good indeed.  The cabin is also well modelled, if a 
bit small in scale.  The blob smoke doesn't work at all.  
It would have been better omitted or at least much more 
subtly textured.  The "heart" is cloying and a bit 
redundant.  Mich nicer and more subtle to just let the 
expression and pose of the snow people carry the 
message.  A couple of little touches I really like are the 
translucent icicles and the Christmas lights on the cabin.


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From r@haka.saunalahti.fi:
Magic or not, you'd think the snowflakes would tumble as they fall. Oh, and
weren't they supposed to be hexagonal?  Neither have I ever seen conifers
shaped like that, and the smoke frankly looks like nothing if not a stack of
granite disks. The snowmen themselves are quite well done, though, as is the
log cabin.