don't use a maya lens flare :), people in the industry hate to see those default maya effects. The opti effects that is.

Getting a degree in 3d is a misconception as many companies are out to look for your demo reel not a college. That is the biggest failure of people that get into 3d. Go to cg talk and look for people...

http://www.forum.simplymaya.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8426

go to my earlier posts and you will see posted work.... that was around a while ago..... around 3 months ago....



http://forum.simplymaya.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8406

now that i look at it, it kinda looks like you're using radiosity

the character image. the first one.... I like the lighting scheme and what kinda shader are you using?

Kbrown what kinda shader are you using for that and lighting scheme. I been trying to find a lighting scheme like that.

The car paint for some reason looks too translucent. You can always find some type of shader but it looks presentable enough to me.

You should be seeing some type of reflection from the car, you can always use ray tracing if you can afford it. render and composite your image scenes in photoshop. It is important to render in...

I like the artistic aspect in my opinion, the textures are well done. The Tower might need more complexity in my opinion like windows. A blowing flag maybe some stairs going around the balcony would...