I will vote for "Marvelous" Marvilla. She (he?) did a very nice composition. The atmosphere, the work on the materials and the delicate painting effect create a charming image. Anyway you all did very good work (especially Mike, Tradivoro and Jilly) !

Myske's image was definitely my favorite... but now I have some reservation about it.

I first though that the stones, the terrains and the grass were done in VUE and that only a few trees were imported pictures. That's the reason why I was so impressed by it when it appeared in the gallery. Now that I have studied it a bit longer I can see clearly that the whole foreground is an imported image. There is aliasing on it and we can notice the border of the 2d plane. The background is surely also an imported image. That leaves us with only two elements done with VUE : the water and the sky.

I personnally think that it went too far concerning "alpha plane". The "Challenge' was to combine 2D and 3D (like all the other did) and not importing the picture of a landscape and rendering it in VUE ! Besides, a software like Photoshop is a better tool than VUE for this kind of layering / editing (and no need to wait for rendering !).

But don't get me wrong Myske, the artwork is still great : in the "mixed medium" gallery I would give it a 10 !

Anyway, this whole "alpha plane exercice" was maybe interesting to see how we can put 2D contents in a 3D scene but concerning learning the advanced features of VUE it was quite useless. Importing the picture of a tree is surely easier than creating one in 3D, but then forget about advanced material editing / texture mapping, alternative camera angles and animations !

Hope the next challenge will be good and sorry for leaving this one aside, the theme was not my cup of tea :(

Eric