Your modelling looks great!! However
"Your goal in this contest is to model anything you like, as long as it is contained within a tunnel of some kind."

All your models are outside the tunnel..

well Toca.. I know Maya has option of rendering in layers.. So i assumed Max has it too.. If not, you could shade each object by a particular color (surface shader) and make a render which could help in selection of individual entity in photoshop.. from the high res, it looked like the author tried to paint DOF manually by hand and it did not work out neatly...

Great image.. and I love the impressive texturing of mushroom clouds.. good luck author..

This is a great image.. however, your DOF is not great.. there are patches of high blur and sharp images ( on the right side of the first machine is highly blurred while right under the canon of the first machine is very sharp) .. I think 3dsmax should have the option of render layers.. This could help in giving DOF effect in photoshop.. else maybe u can set it in the camera .. good luck

Looks great .. the only thing that was glaring to me was the font used for the display.. a digital font would make it look better. also you could reduce its opacity to make it bit more realistic.

WOW!! THis is impressive!!! waiting for sbs

for me, its perfectly on theme... only problem i find is that there is no high res ...

i hate to be a geek here, but author, your image has wrong physics.. the water will flow downwards in the absence of gravity.. (Newtons first law).. So to me this is unbelievable... But as far as your execution is concerned, i find it impressive .. good luck ..

EDIT: I reread the contest theme.. Although the title suggests no gravity, the description suggests differently. I take back my geeky words and good luck again, author

Nice idea.. However, to me it looks like an empty unending space rather than an elevator tunnel.. Also, the man is too bright for his environment.. Good luck author

Looks cool... ... good luck author

Impressive Looking killer machine ... THis really impresses me, but if there is one thing i would like to change, I would like to see the "specularity " (i dont know if there is a word like this) of the arrow design toned a bit down.. With the hdr, its too reflective for my taste.. again, its just my taste.. .. good luck author

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I agree with solkee.. also, the spherical droplets would have highlights (just like the edges of the choco car have).. Now your droplets look flat.. good luck

Impressive detailed modelling..

Interesting fish species ... impressive work author... i love the splash effect u have created... an improvement u can make is make the skin (or is it scales?) of the fish wet.. Good luck

great idea.. i would add a rotattional motion blur to the wheels to make it more realistic.. and u could work more on the number sheet (of all the colors, why did u have to choose pink ?? ) like the shadows or give it the curvature of the bin.. its looks too fake now .. good luck

edit: i have never taken photographs, so i would not know.. but i always thought the wheels would blur out in such cases.. but maybe i am wrong .. purple?? maybe its my computer screen playing tricks

nice entry here.. .. Your sbs just shows the texture you have used. It would be more convenient for voters (like me) to have a look at a screenshot of your model or scene and just not the final render.. Your sbs has just 1 shot of you trying to make a plane but nothing about modelling thereafter..

Edit: well author, i owe an apology here.. I dont have much exposure to bryce interface and i assumed your first three steps were some kind of blue prints (especially looking at the background) ... thats the reason i requested for a step with the model visible..

maybe u are missing the source links for the textures? (the basket) .. great image.. good luck

u will have to provide the link for the sources used in textures and background.. good luck