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From flabreque@videotron.ca:
Simple, yet effective.

You should have rotated the pawn and the bishop a bit.  
The wood textures should NOT be perfectly aligned.

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From charliemc@prodigy.net:

U must like chess.
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From hgregory3@aol.com:
Artistic - Excellent 1st Entry. Quality wooden chess pieces and board.
Technical - Unfortunately you didn't make any sort of a description of how you
built what.  Thus mid range marks for technical.
Concept - Definitely a contrast here!!!

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From steve@neurotrain.com:
A 15 T 12 C 10
Not much to be added , the scene is quite simple.  The 
one brain tickling thing is that all the black squares are 
identical, as are the white ones.  Also the wood grains 
line up perfectly with the pieces

Technical: in a scene this simple, small things count 
large.  To avoid the repetitive squares, either generate 
64 unique textures (I woundn't) or create two large boxes 
that perfectly overlap. give one a white and the other a 
brown/black texture, then group the sixty four boxes you 
have already made into two groups of 32 and difference 
them out of the appropriate large box.
Also try rotating the wood grain texture slightly so the 
lines are not 90 degrees perfect on the pieces

Good concept.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Nice shaping, although the pieces seem too short.  Nice 
wood textures.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
What's the other scene?

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From hfventer@ing.sun.ac.za:
Wonderful concept!
One comment tho.  The chess pieces seem a bit squat.  
I get the feeling they should be taller.
Great texturing.

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From beliaev@utu.fi:
Just a remark. As far as I understand it, when the wood is turned on a lathe, the wood fibers would be parallel to the axis of rotation.


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From file:
lovely textures