to the rock...

[Nek]

This render rocks! (I couldn´t resist)
Seriously, the contrast with the rock, the fog at horizon and the yellow boat are very nice.

[mcvltd]

Absolutely stunning as usual!

[giraffe]

very nice work
would you please tell us which methods and plugins you used?
thanks

[Neilg]

You're not crazy, the human brain is wired to do that.

Off topic, but some design software which is based around this whole idea is on it's way and so much fun to use it's ridiculous. Still alpha, but works very well.
http://al.chemy.org/
the alchemy -> zbrush is quite cool - http://al.chemy.org/videos/

[alias_marks]

excellent! I love it. I feel like I could go off and write a whole novel about the story this image portrays. Bravo.

Very inspiring Maxer

[Bathyscaph]

Really nice image. Simple and well done.

[pixelplume]

it made me say "wow" out loud. really really nice

[alias_marks]

Hey Maxer, I ran across this on flickr, and instantly thought of this rendering. I feel like they're part of the same story.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luislx/2764771171/

kinda fun I thought....