Thank you very much guys. I am currently at 38th position now, down from 12th last night
It seems a lot of bad designs having been getting a lot of support from facebook friends… the problem with a public voting system I suppose!
Kinda thinking i should have angled the render, added some stronger key lighting and lightened the background. oh well! deadmau5 looks at the top 50 so the number 1 place doesn’t automatically win!
Haha thanks Greg, but I have been pushed well out of the top 50, and embarrassingly, by some terrible designs. would be grateful for any votes from the blender community.
also, I was wondering how it would be possible to get realistic dispersion in the diamonds, would that be something that Cycles is capable of?