my first entry is not shown in "MY contest entries".I cant edit it also...May i know wats the problem is?

nice work

Very good skills. I'm sure you used a camera in Max with less than 40 lens. Thats why image is deformate. I use only camera lens higher than 80 except if I want this special lens effect deform

I'm repeating myself here.. but 90% of the pictures need a proper background.. and this is one of them. Make a nice, clean and colorful chessboard and this will look so much better. You can also show your skills with the board.The piece itself is very clean and nicely done.

(Well, any kind of background. Be it a table, a satin cushion, some clothing or anything else..)

I'm satisfied about my background. As the contest moderator said it should look like a real macro shot. I used a "digital white box" for my background just like a photograph may do it.

Well, I'm assuming it's a glass texture and it would look a lot better with something showing through. But anyways, the piece itself is very good work, solid and clean.

Nice image, would like to see an SBS. Did you have the caustics turned on? Which render engine did you use? vray, scanline, or mentalray? Did you use any fill lights to enhance the HDR image? I do like this, I just wish you could expand on your explanation with an SBS.

I didn't use any renders in 3ds Max. Normally I Would use Mental Ray but for this clean untextured scene I used KeyShot 2 with a custom build shader.

Nice modeling, do feel that the background is lacking contrast.

cool

thank you for nice comments, ponti55 , richieMB, 6tann...

ppl please vote and comment this entry, i hv red flagged the other one...
i dont even hv the access to it.... thank you...

edit: thanks for nice comments everyone...
missy: sure you can hv one...

Great work

Great job author...good luck

Great job author .

great work author..top entry

Amazing work.....Absolutely brilliant.....Loved it....GL..

Brilliant!

Fab idea and fab image, all the best.

great work

I've never seen a round chess board but I like it. This has a nice feel to it.

Good one.

So, are you taking orders for these???? Sounds like you had better do that. Wonderful job. GL

Very realistic entry, you did such a great job with this.....GL

great entry! so unusual and creative! gl

Brilliant...........Good Luck Author.

very good

nice work.......

Congrats for your third place, Closedeyes!

Congrats for 3rd place

Congrats! for 3rd place

thanks for nice comments and votes...

congrats.........

Congratulations, very nice work indeed

Good job! I really like it! :d

Nice concept...Good one....

Very nice idea...gl

Good concept author.

creative entry, GL

more sbs coming, all image formats are wrong...

Ohhhh!!! Niiiceee! Very original, great idea, author!!!

Very creative and original

Nice imagination....Creative work...But chess represents a war in a strategic manner..In chess you try to defeat the other person with your moves not in terms of violence but in terms of strategy...So overall the game of chess is a different interpretation but your imagination is also cool...GL..

meh.. i choose divergence over conformity any day, even though it might not be in the same light as the intended theme of the competition. Doesn't even matter if i don't win, its just... art.

nice concept...looks kinda cartoony..hope that's what you were going for

Nice. looks like strategy game.good work.

GL on this creative entry

nice idea! gl