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From tek@evilsuperbrain.com:
Woah, that is some seriously nice lighting!


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From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com:
Great use of light, even though it disguised some of the objects too much, to my
taste.

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From houston_roadrunner@yahoo.com:
I like this alot, I would rate it higher but it is to dark and I nearly missed
the person sitting in the gloom.

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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
Your light changes were fatal.  Aside from where the sun shines in, the room is
utterly dark.  The picture and girl are nowhere to be found.

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From :

Very good quality.  Perhaps the image is a bit TOO dark though?  I like the
blueish feel.
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From MarkNitschke@gmx.de:
i like this one. the idea, interpretation of the topic and the technical side
are well done. i would feel very lonely beeing in that room.

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From awilcox@dreampeach.com:
Well done.  I'd like to see the person.
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From beighton155@yahoo.com:
Not an original idea, but it takes the known idea of loneliness and represents
it very well.  I like the lighting, although on my monitor i couldn't make out
the picture or much detail on the girl. As a Maya user you will soon realise
the inbuilt renderer is not brilliant, so VirtuaLight might get some more use!

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From novotek@web.de:
i know what you mean...

very good athmosphere to the topic. (if you wanna call it an athmosphere...)

sad, but true.

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From ruy@hipernet.com.br:
That's what I think too: loneliness will inspire a lot of feelings, and bring to
mind images that are private to each and everyone of us. For instance, an apple
could be a representation for loneliness if one was to have one alone for
several years as a child. Thanks for a nice way of describing it.

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From jpgargoyle@sapo.pt:
This is a nice one.
Nice overall image, with good modelig, compositon and a nice lighting effect.
I just think the character is too much in the shadow. Its hard to notice at
first.
But it fits the topic well.
Best regards.

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From p.olice@free.fr:
You chose to use global illumination, but I reckon you made a mistake there. The
character is too dark (I had to look at the image twice to spot him/her).
Placing a good old fill light (or a couple of them) in front of the character
to simulate light bouncing off the table top would have done the trick.

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From helene.dumur@free.fr:
a beautiful picture, yes, I really feel all the loneliness of this scene...

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From dapigg2000@yahoo.com:
Grrr. Maya. I should have known it takes an expensive tool to turn this kinda
stuff out.

The person's kinda hard to make out, but the details are pretty ... lonely.
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From suso@suso.org:
  Pretty good.  I like how you made the table cloth appear soft like a piece
  of cloth.  The only problem I see with this image is that you say that it's
  loneliness of your wife being gone, but yet there are three empty chairs, one
  turned out.  It almost indicates that two children died and the wife left
  as a result.


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From rclee@oklahoma.net:
Nice lighting.  The person at the table is a bit 
too dark.

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From glenn@mccarters.net:
I like the bold choice of keeping the figure in shadow instead of =
sunlight.  Something seems wrong with the scale of the scene: either the =
person is too small, or the painting is too high on the wall.

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From bill@apocalypse.org:
the bumps in the tablecloth are a nice touch of realism.  Excellent 
composition.

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From p_chan@shaw.ca:
I agree that the "cool" lighting really adds to the scene.  
It might be because of the perspective, but it seems to 
me that the table is too large relative to the chairs.

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From patrick@sypa.net:
A little too dark

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
The lighting is interesting, but the pure white of the 
window bothers me... it seems odd, and it draws 
attention away from the other, more interesting objects 
in the scene.  Does a good job of evoking loneliness 
with just a few objects.

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From jl@artcom-gmbh.de:
I think the right part is too dark.

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From clem@dhol.org:
I don't see the nominal story at all.