I love it your last image, it’s very funny. 
Beautiful Image! I love the characters, the textures, the lighting -everything about it.
I can only add my congrats and appreciation, fantastic job!
knew it would get to the top…
wonderful piece…
nice piece !
amazing picture !!
what the hell ! Why have you only 3 stars !!
keep the good work
Wow this toptally deserve the Top Row 
Amazing works and eqaully impressive render!
ur davy jones is awesome! classic. i like the l’il squids too. somehow davey’s face reminds me of oscar the grouch… lots of character!
There has been a lot of simply fantastic work posted this year so far, but I rank this as the BEST 3d work I’ve seen in 2008. The idea, composition, colors, mood, textures, render…all amazing.
Really love it.
Really awesome, what else to say, you are a master.
you repeated that the render setup is nothing special, but I am sure, many of us would be more as happy if you would like to upload us a simple scene file with your mental sss shader as well as the light setup…
as model, a sphere with some depth, curves, or scratches on the surface, so it looks like the crab or some of your other cool renderings…
also interesting the DOF effect, you did in max, or post ?
even if you repaeted that the setup in max isn’t somethign special, we all would be really more as happy if you would like to let us see backstage and upload us a simple scene file to explore the fascinating world of simon…
thx a lot,
capu
LOL
great work, this is a fantastic piece. I knew that you would get to the top row soon.
Agreed! Fantastic work! Very funny too and so well executed. You’re very good it seems with playing with materials, especially for monsters with specularity etc. 
Great works! Rendering is really fabulous.
Hi Simon,
absolute fantastic work I’ve seen here. I really love the tiny Pirat.
hope to see more.
masc
HAhahahahaha! Fantastic!
that is so cool…
first time i saw your thread…u made me awe!!!
now u made me smile:D …truly inspiring…
Hello friends,
I treid to use hte FAst SSS Hader in mental ray, and I also would like to use the displcament map… but the sss shader, doesnt’ have any map slot for using a displacement map…
hmm, so how you use for your renders the sss shader plus displacement map ?
Hey everybody!
i’ve put online the little making of"No More Wine!"
I hope you will have fun watching it
[http://www.simonblanc.com/pages/nomorewinemof.jpg](http://www.simonblanc.com/pages/nomorewinemof.jpg)
The Full HD version is located at www.simonblanc.com/pages/nomorewinemofhd.html
Thank you all for the comments !
Capu , to have a displacement with an sss material, use the “sss fast skin+ displacement” material, just above the sssfast skin classic