> I suggest a change in lighting: a subtle pale blue light from above, 
> preferably an area light or even totally shadowless so it doesn't look too 
> obvious. This will shift the image away from the monochromatic and, assuming 
> your ice is white and everything else is orange, should really help make it 
> look like ice and make it stand out from the background.

I tried making the candle flame cyan instead of yellow.

It made the wood look green! :-S

The ice did look slightly more icy though. But only slightly. I think 
maybe the ice is just too damn transparent? Or maybe I should put some 
scattering media in it or something? (I mean heck, it's only 4 hours a 
render at the moment; why not make it 4,000 hours??)


The candle is *supposed* to be composed of snow. But nobody would ever 
realise that. It just looks... well, like granite, actually. Or maybe 
brass, with all that orange light on it. (Candle flame is orange, wood 
is orange, radiosity.....)

I haven't even started on the flame yet. As I see it, I need to fix the 
abysmal wood and marble textures, make the ice look more like ice, and 
somehow make my snow look like snow.

So, basically, change the entire image, actually... >_<

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