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From grimmg@hotmail.com:
You should have make a landscape around the theater and there are too many
lights casting shadows.
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From uwezi@geocities.com:
Believe it or not, but I like the separation of the opera and its placing on
an irrealistic ocean under a colorful sky!

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From scarmig@ohmss.com:
I like the operahouse.  Glad you decided to show it off!

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From jake@snafu.de:
Nice idea.  The way the model jumps out of the background in terms of lighting
and the way the water glows in this garish blue spoils the overall impression.

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From ct@westmarch.com:
I see you did your research! I bumped you up on tech for that
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From tglover@nettally.com:
Pretty good for an unfinished effort.  Lot's of research -- good modelling
of it.  Definitely needs some finishing touches.

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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
Interesting, surprising but nice colouring scheme.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
This is a good example of putting too much exacting detail in one area, at the
expense of the rest of the scene.  Since the individual steps are nearly
invisible, you could have (temporarily) substituted a simple primitive for
them.  This would have given you time to put in a rough heightfield landscape
and a few boxy buildings to begin to fill out the scene.  I like to create in
terms of an overall scene first, then concentrate on the most important
details.
Add a yacht or two, as you mentioned.  A familiar object like this is vitally
important to establish the scale of the scene.  Look at "lepont.jpg" in this
round to see an image which is less complex, but is far more complete than your
scene.
Good effort so far.  I'm glad you submitted it.  I look forward to seeing the
final image.

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From joergnick@aol.com:
The opera house looks very realistic, but why you positioned it on a block in
the water? A little bit more detailed suroundings, like houses or bridges would
give this image more to look at.

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From clem@dhol.com:
The background and surroundings are pretty, but I would 
have preferred at least an approximation of the real thing.  
As it is, the landscape elements tend to overwhelm the 
opera house itself.  I like the glass.  I know it is unfinished, 
but the opera house should still be more prominent in the 
picture.  Even so, a promising and dramatic image.