What an amazing perspective. I like the wistful mood you created here.

Fabulous render and POV, I love the improvements. I prefer this version for sure!

Great render and fantastic POV. Well done!

In a strictly technical sense your artistic composition is competent. I would like to enjoy your work more-- however the politics of the message in your “back story” is unclear -- and this forces me to distrust your intentions. You seem to be posing as science fiction the socialist (anti-capitalist) lie that the wealth created by sciences industry and capitalism create societies of those who “have” (position, status, financial liquidity) and those who have not (or lack that same position, status, and financial liquidity). I don’t know if you understand or are conscious of the dishonest politically socialist message in your work -- in which case you are (by intent or ignorance) overlooking the truthful reality that you create this art on an advanced computer running some of the most advanced and sophisticated software available -- which is strictly a product of capitalism and not socialism (and never could be produced by centrally planned economic socialism, which is driven by necessity and the absolute minimum requirements of human need, comfort, and is not at all concerned with creative productivity) -- or if you are unaware of the implications of what you pose as a “story.” Capitalism has, more than any other force in history, freed more people from tyranny, provided a life of productivity, plenty, creative, and personal freedoms, provided the financial backing for science and medical technology to create a more healthy, and longer lived, population, and created lives of opportunity rich with freedoms for more people than any socialist, fascist, or dictatorial monarchy. The model of the rich living in high rises and the poor in the shadows at their roots is actually more descriptive of the vast towering vertical slums which socialism creates, rather than of the sunny clean and beautiful cities of capitalism. The kind of oppression you imply is not the product of capitalism -- but rather the result of socialism and fascist centrally controlled states.

Well, I was just going to say 'nice picture' but now I feel compelled to say that wishing for a better future and wanting to be upwardly mobile is more a capitalist wish than a socialist one. Socialists would want to pull the buildings down so that everyone would live in down there - it's capitalists who dream of hard work getting them rewards.

Amazing perspective and great work with the differences in the lighting in improving the image!

Very beautiful piece, and like T&B I personally take a capitalistic interpretation of this. :)

That was some comment up there. Personally, I totally enjoy this piece for the artistic merits. Great POV. Stunning textures, and a fantastic overall piece of art

Cool pOV.

great sci-fi scene with excellent pov and details

Still very spectacular composition! Great mood and atmosphere of splendor! Bravo!!!

Wow spectacular and excellent!

Very nicely done! Great POV. Not even going to get into social commentary. Only thing I would suggest is less .jpg compression, even if it means shrinking the image size a bit.

Great image! And I like the background story, cause it´s realistic. Well, she wants to be up there, what´s understandable and it´s your story. Mine is different and can be read on deviant art. @wblack: The capitalist fairy tale of "progress for all" works only in a very limited sense, it works then when you count the absolute living status, but when you take the relative access to property and therefore power into account it shows the wide (and widening) gap, that´s even open in our western societies. When you take into consideration the so called "third world" , which is the resource and labour base for our economies, it shows the horrible amount of exploitation and inhumanity this system causes. The welfare we have is what we´ve taken away from capitalism by forming unions and establishing political rights and the bit of democracy we have. The workers in the factories of the 19th century in Britain and Germany were far worse off than a free craftsman was before, especially when you consider the self fulfilment and the development of personal skill at work. Saying that without capitalism we hadn´t computers is like saying without fascism we hadn´t modern rockets (1939), jet engines (1938) and the ZUSE 1 Computer (1941) all made under fascism, which is the last state of capitalism. These inventions would have been made anyway; maybe in the US in 1940, maybe in the USSR in the 1960s or in IRAN in the 1990s but they would´ve been there. Inventions are made because humans are curious by nature and the desire to improve our life is there under every economic and political systems but capitalism is one, that privatizes the benefits and socialises the risks and losses. And you seem only to know authoritarian socialism, the self-managed work in libertarian socialist (or anarchist) factories during the Spanish civil war was 30 percent more productive than under the former capitalist owners.

Don't you just love how politics can find it's way into the fantasy art world. Individualism is what made us. 'Fiction' means not real, don't they get it? Great image all round. I love the work you have put into it.

Great picture. I have been enjoying Jazz and her story very much. Thank you for sharing it with us all.