Thank you, markschum. The smoothing thing fixed the ballooning right up. I'm still sorting out the shadow, but I think I can nail it down (Lol, like Peter's shadow). Before long I should have a charming dingy detective's office, complete with a gun and a pretty lady.
,darthuv

Ok, got it.
Thanks for all the help.
I'm going to make one minor correction, then post it.

Yes, I know I didn't give background to the meaning of the image, so no one can tell if somethings missing there. But I was asking as far as color theory, composition, and other areas of art craftsmenship; Does anything seem missing or out of place?

Close race, congrats everyone.

Here are a few I thought were going to be there.
3D No.64
I thought it could have used a little more consistancy in the texturing, but it is still really good.

3D No.11
Has a nice Hallmark greeting card feel.

Merry Christmas,
Aaron

That's something I hadn't thought of, I can check the power supply. If I remember right it's less than a year old, but I do live in a very dry area (dust collects like there's no tomarrow).

Sarte, I think there is something more disconcerting than proportions, in the fact that most of these images have woman as the victims. :P Plus, it took DAZ and other model makers a while before they started giving any chest reduction options for their female models.

Most menacing by far is From the Dark

But these could do as well:
Child of Chaos
Oppenheimer's Haircut
Madame Usher
Common Enemy

Wow, I never really thought of how much dark stuff I do, maybe it's from all The Cure and Depeche Mode I listened to as a teenager.

theforce.net
sw3d
Star Wars Modeling Webring

Here are some suggestion, I don't know if they have exactly what you want, but it's worth a check.

,darthuv

1st-hauksdottir 2nd-chohole 3rd-dialyn Great work, all very different and more wonderful than I thought I might see given my theme.

Man, I was really starting to think I wasn't going to be done in time. The Terragen render was 7 hours and 44 minutes.

I'd love to see more people take part. But I hate spamming, it just generally ticks people off more than anything else. I'm still recovering from a harddrive failure or I might have had an entry.

Amusing, I had no idea Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover was such a versitile program, but then I don't think your using it the way they intended.

I think AgentSmith is right that a lot of it is personality of the mod, but I also think that timing and recent events play major rolls too.

(Rambling explanation ahead. Sorry, but I'm somewhat of a native storyteller. If you want to skip ahead I'll mark my conclusion with two asterix.)
I've been a member of Rendo for years, but only recently started being really active in the community again. I all of a sudden had plenty of time, because I just finished school but got too sick to hold a regular job. So art seemed like the best way to spend my time, and get my mind off of pain and discomfort. I started looking at contest and challenges to focus my attention on. Especially the challenges brought me into surfing the forums. Once here I started to notice that it seemed like I'd come in the wake of a major meltdown. And it wasn't just one forum, but forum after forum seemed to be putting out the fires of a massive free fire zone. Some of the language did make me a bit nervous in entering feedback and community events such as challenges. There was so much language of exclusivity (i.e. "Why don't have this or that only open to our community?"; "Why do the Poser people have to butt into our rating system?"; "Those Bryce people don't really understand how to get results out of this program. Can't we keep them out in some way?"; "Man, I hate it when those fractal people post here."; etc, etc, etc.) For me it's odd if I don't use more than one program on a work, I'd say on average it's about three. I thought I might get booed of stage a couple of times, but posted anyway.

**my point: Locking post quickly also might be the effect of a forum trying to recover from a courtesy meltdown.