Wow Guido, typically amazing work. The textures on that doggie are great! That has to be the best DOF I've ever seen done. Are you using version 8 yet??? Excellent and a vote for the Hot 20 from me my friend - dano

ThanX dano, yes I had the luck to render this scene in R8, the renderengine is stunning, also the settings for the dof are great done by maxon, it`s worth every bug to update!!! Ah, and thank you for the top20-vote.

I agree,for you typicall amazing work FAKE,this is absolutely stunning!!!!!I love the texturing,DOF is wonderful,you are a sci-fi master,you have done an awesome job!!!

Very nice, as always, but, one thing bothers me... The shadows should in my opinion be a bit more visible. At least where the legs touch the ground. Area shoadows maybe, although that would increase rendertime a lot.

Great modeling and posing of the bot. The lack of stronger shadows where the floor and bot meet is distracting to an otherwise perfect image. Good job!

Yes the light... I just wanted to have the fx of a verrrry soft light... maybee it`s a bit to soft... in the next scene I will use other lights, I swear...lol Thanx for the great comments!!!

Very nicely done indeed. Love the texturing and the lighting.

Your modeling skills amaze me... this is - as always - an excellent work. (you should send it to the "La Creme" gallery : http://www.c4ddesign.de).

Good work! A tip on the shadows, if you don't feel like re-render the complete scene again: remove the background elements so you only have your main character left, remove all lights, environments and so on, and finally replace all your textures with with a single shader with only the Luminosity-channel (white) activated. Render against black background and use this as an alpha mask in Photoshop to darken and then blur the areas where more shadows are needed. A simple but effective trick I've used several times :)

Great tip Cartesius!! :))

why don't you just use multipass rendering instead? It's nice work, but they're right, there's essentially no benefit you've gained from using radiosity in that scene. Consider increasing the 3d relief of the walls, and using those strips for illumination in a very limited sense, turn off radiosity because it's wasted on a scene like this and start building in some atmosphere with the enviroment and the shadows. Lovely work on Amee, but I do feel it was Val Kilmer that was the star ;)

Excellent modeling & texturing, and a wonderful DOF.

Geeez this is great. Very nice modelling, and yes, the DOF too!

one of the best pics I have ever seen

yooo wicked picture, great textures! to me the bone looks too clean, but on the other hand i dont think it would look as good dirty =P Great job =D

I got to see Red Planet many orbits ago, and I found this robot to be one of the most frightening menaces since the creatures in the first Alien movie. In this gorgeous render of this little Bot however - you have portrayed him as something more akin to a household pet like a Cocker Spaniel - which I love by the way. Your mastery over getting a true metallic look and feel is simply 2nd to none my friend. I see absolutely nothing wrong with one square centimeter of this image, and certainly not in the lighting. It seems the better an artist you are in these forums - then the more risk you run of unflattering, (and imho - unfair criticism). Why people cannot look at the good found in the work rather than dwell on what they THINK is wrong, totally escapes me. I somehow think that the word jealousy fits into here somewhere...lol. This is a remarkable piece of work my friend - and beautifully presented with a sweet dash of humor. Out of 10 I give it a 39!

lol ... what else should I say? Something that let oneself starting a robot :-) Great work!!

Uhhh, wow... thank you all for your comments, the lovely words and taking the time to view this one here! Ah, cartesius, thanx a lot for your great tip, I will try it!!! Jason, thank you so much for the words you wrote here, it motivates me and I love your work and your unique style!!! Erik, as I wrote to you in an email... its a nightmare to model a robot BUT its so much FUN!!! I am curious about your bot and can`t wait to see it here at rosity! FAKE. ~{o;)

Stunning modlling and texturing Fake! - love it! - agree on the lighting/shadows, should be a little more defined at the toes etc.

ThanX audity, I have send the image to "La Creme", they send me a letter that the jury will be looking at and in about 7 days or so the image will be in the gal with a bit luck. Oh, I have forgotten to thank you all for voting this image in the Top20... I am feeling like a little kid at X-Mas by viewing all the great comments from you!!! ~{o;)

lol, don't wanna know, what she'll let go, if she finds that tree. It might polute the ground water ;-). Very beautiful modellnig work, she really looks like AMEE.

I just love this work of yours, you ARE a master. excellent work, well done

Wow, awesome work.. Humoristic too.. I like it.. =)

Great!!!

Killer work again FAKE! I DIG IT!!! ...this Rocks man!

That is a cute robot. Why doesnt he have a shadow?

Because hes a werebot:P Seems there is some, but very very weak... With this kind of lights maybe he really would look like this... I dont know. Excellent usage of DOF, it adds twice as reality as the rest:) The bone looks a bit less realistic than other obj, this is the only disadvantage I can be sure about.