"Hope it looks better now" it is still pretty dark to me...

This picture needs GI.... I did not realize there was skulls on the frame until i looked at the SBS. The render just destroy most of the detail visible in the SBS..

I looked at the SBS, the skulls are really cool, your model deserve it to be more visible.

This is some great modeling, for sure. Your SBS shows that. The lighting or it's brightness could be higher IMO, can you change the light's brightness?

A bit dark, but cool image, love the skulls.

The apples are too yellow and "perfect." The ones in the painting have a lot of red splotches, some green, and a few bruises.

Well Thnx for ur comment .... I've tried hard to make the apples just like the painting.... but frankly...... I failed .

I didn't find a picture to texture my apples so I created a gradient map for this porpuse ... and posted the best resultes that I've got .....

But you have to notice that the painting was made by oil colors .. which I didn't use in my render

try using some dirt maps in alpha or generate some layers of noise some large and some small and put it in bump as well gl.

Author, the contest rules state: "...let one (or more) of the elements in this painting come to life." Not using the oil colors in your render doesn't negate the fact that your elements don't match.

I'm sure that you could create a small "freeform" blotch texture that you could overlay onto the apples, slightly warping it for variation, but I am not a 3d user - there are some excellent 3d artists here who may have a suggestion.

Your apples are lovely, they just don't look like they came out of the picture, they look like someone went shopping and bought some huge yellow apples...

I like Cezanne...........I like your work!

Cool idea! I am not sure but the apples out of the painting should look this way "alife" because they are out of the painting right?! This is just my opinion tho! I love it, truly lovely work!

Really nice concept

Very cute little man, I like the inspiration too. If you want my opinion on some improvements, I would suggest getting a better wooden texture for the floor, perhaps the one you have but with increased titles would work,.

Thanks Ponti55 & Ory.
@Ory: yup i should try that, actually i used the default texture from 3dsmax so couldn't help the tiling.

Fantastic idea and great work author...ahhhhhhh small Darth Vader's attack Michelin mascot...just a joke...

great work, really like how you add this all together

This...... is cool!.....nice work!

It’s a good idea and not a bad render, but to me your lighthouse looks to be leaning over slightly, and what are the uniform marks on the rocks in the foreground looks like a hessian texture overlaid on top?.

Thanks Warlock. The hessian thingy is an artifact from the DOF on the camera, but then I thought you'd know that. I didn't use a Vray physical cam. So the leany thing is just a camera distortion. I know, coz I had the rotate gizmo set with angle snap and it was perfectly set to 90 degrees on both the camera and Lighthouse. I did however use fairly low render settings due to my poor machine. Subdivs@500 Irradiance map@ Medium.
So you can see that it's not the best render. You've not put an entry up for a while Warlock. Are we going to see one sometime? Maybe I could learn some stuff from you I'm always looking to improve. The more I learn the better I will get. (3DS Max is HUGE, with a very steep learning curve. Maybe you could stick some tuts up for PXLeyes?)

Sorry I don’t use vray, and for good reason......only Brazil Rendering System or Octane Render GPU Unbiased Render Engine and Maxwell render. I have 3D max but gave up on it a long time ago in version 4,obnoxious and gimmicky to much clicking around the screen for just the most simples process, it may be industry stranded dose not mean that it is the best, there are a lot more capable application out there that do the job better and quicker.

As for entry’s when they become more creative and challenging I will, I put up three or four suggestion but they got passed over.

If you have any question just P.M me and I will see if I can help.

Really nice work author...best of luck

Congratulations for 2nd, looks really good.

thank you guys.........

Congrats!!!

wow, this is awesome!

I really like the modeling here, nice work. I'm interested in the render engine you used? It looks like mental ray? Or perhaps Vray sun? But really good modeling

Nice work author.Good luck.

thnx......
well I have used mental ray with day light and sky light

A lot of work here and definitely not in vain.. very nice image and textures. (And a good SBS too). I would love to see some trees or street view or something behind the fence, but it's just a minor detail really... add a flower to the vase(s) and a candle or bulb inside the lamps and I'm all sold. (Well, I am already..) Great job, author..

Great work author...well done

nicely done ! good luck

This is done very well.... good work!

Some pretty nice modeling but to me it looks as tho you have used the same texture for 85% of the image?

thanks warlock......
well in flower pot i did some variation in texture and, the light poll,fence and tiny models are textured with default max texture..... but rest of the texture are painted.....

Congrats for your first place!

Congrats for 1st

Congrats nice work

Congrats!!!