Now that is B.A.U.T.I.F.U.L !!!!! work author

Great image! Check the very front edge of the red bristles...

Wow....WOW!

VERY IMPRESSIVE

very cool!!

smart pic

nice

Author.. when you speak of this RENDER TIME.. (curious) how much time does it take to save once you've rendered the image.. very curious.. . the part that really makes the piece is the reflections INSIDE the Helmet..they are absolutely spell binding... ( I think CMYK is talking about that teenie tiny itsy bitsy pink and black triangle at the front of the base of the red feathers.. you can see it if you look under super duper high resolution) It could be photoshopped out in a milla second, but like you said.. to render it out sounds like a bEAAAACH... superb work

This is Superb Author!!

very nice!

awesome!!

nice work on materials ....but shadows and lighting can be better.....GL....

I agree with the rest. It looks really good. Actually i was half way through modeling a helmet like that. But I now realize it wouldn't match yours.

People on this site seems too amazed of one of the most basic futures of 3D-rendering - reflections. I'm not. I'm more amazed about the modeling. You've done a really good job on the details and making it look smooth. And I love the use of fur/hair.

If you're planning to use it in another project,with other objects, you should however reduce the reflections and add some textures to the diffuse and reflection to make it look realistic. High marks from me!

Fantastic job .......Good Luck Author.

Darn wish I had 3ds max well done

Pristine!

Excellent work!

Fantastic render..................do you give instructions? LOL really love this one!

nice Fur and modeling. to create a great helmet. I would suggest some simple dirt maps apllied to your various shaders to give a little real world variation to the specular, reflection and diffuse attributes. will make the image much more real. also conect an ambient occlosion node to the diffuse attribute of the floor and helmet shaders and it will ground the helmet better. All in all nice helmet though.

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very nice entry, i agree, this is a top work for sure

Great work , proud with this.

great job

Congrats Missy, amazing work

Hey Congratulations Missy nice job

Congratz!! Excellent work as usual Missy

Congrats for your first place, Missy

Congrat for the first Missy...

Congrats!!!!!!!! Great work!!!

congrats

Congrats

Congratulations!

Congratulations.. this is one of the best 3D images i think i've ever seen!

Awesome work. Really fantastic entry. Love it. .

SBS and Improvements to follow tommorow

Excellent render!! Wow!!!

Great render!(Maybe you could add a bit more bumps on the sand;just a thought though)

Really like this

Really nice work, here.

LOVE this entry............really beautifully done!

As usual great, good, best in this contest IMO, bla-bla... Lets get to work
1. I love the old aspect of the helmet. Is easy to make a new, perfect object in 3D but is difficult to make it look old. Maybe some redish color for a rusty look.
2. This was a just a detail. Sorry to tell that ( I tell you cause I appriciate your work ), the sand and water are disasters. So monotonous, so uniform. I know, is hard to work a 3D underwater landscape in 2 weeks but better you used a photoshop background than that. Good luck and congrats.

as I said SBS and hopefully some improvements. Thanks for all the comments.

Also as billy boy says I could have used a backplate image and got a better image, but we nead to clarify if that is allowed, I think we should, but am never good at following rules, so for this one I went simple.

Looks good! I like the fact that you dared to texture the helmets old and worn. I'm glad you didn't go the safe way, with the much too overrated simple reflections (= high votes), and went for realism instead.

Anyway, the only constructive things I can come up with is about the surrounding. I think the seabed looks to uniform (like Billyboy said), smooth and empty. More bump should do it. Also, the textured simulation of light projecting the waves on the seabed (caustic) doesn't seem to affect the helmet. I know Maya has possibilities for this though. Really good job anyway!
(I'll vote later in case of improvements)

EDIT: ...I forgot one thing. Great SBS!

nice!

Excellent work here.

very nice look here

Congrats for your second place, Dante

congrat Dante...

Congratulations!

congrats

Hey Congrats on your win

Wow great job, i don;t think enough stalks of grass ar being shown contrasting the sky, but the helmet itself is stunning!

Thanks Ponti; maybe, the background are quickly done to get the Gladiator movie "crop field feeling" and get some natural reflections. It is however focal blured away somewhat to keep focus on the helmet.

Great entry! GL

GREAT!!!!!!

Congrats for your third place, dka

congrat dka...

Congrats!!!!!!!! Great work!!!

congrats

Congrats on your win

Looks good. I especially like the wood and the spikes texturing. But you could however add some more bump to some parts of the helmet to make it look even better. A flat mirror ground is boring - maybe you could add some minor bump there as well to make it look less "perfect". Good job anyway.

Nice! I wish I knew how to do stuff like this.

The reflection of the wooden part would be closer to the surface...

congrat for the fourth ...

congrats

Helmet modelling is super OK, fences look good, the far helmet is fine, something wrong with the mauve light. The helmet shadow on the car is from a light on the left, suppose is the key light with shadows on. But it seems the colour light is on right without shadow. For the rest high marks for me, a good mise en scene.

Thanks for pointing that out! That may be because the lights have different intensity and falloff (for variation and avoiding mixing the colors). The blue light on top off the car to the right has 50%, while the red to the right only has 25%. The main light (~100 meters behind the camera) has 100%. I'm not sure, but that may the answer.

Brilliant reflection work!