Nice work, but what is the brown thing in the lower LH corner? It looks like a really weird sandwich...

Interesting image...IMHO leaves is to big compared with Santa and the car...also in high resolution image look to granulated, and noise is clearly visible...good luck author

@mossyb : That in the corner is just the way the ivy has grown.

@erathion : I added the film grain in photoshop, I know its a bit strong, but even though I lowered the exposure on the santa pic it was still looking very superimposed on the final render, so I added the grain to try and unite all the elements of the picture.

I guess you are right about the scale of the leaves being a bit big. I was struggling with the ivy as the plugin seems to want to close Max down all the time with no warning - it was driving me mad by the time I got this render.

Neat

Cool, congrats for 3rd