Gonna rez this real quick for my two cents on Peach's Castle
It's quite gorgeous. I really hope you decide to do another version with some of the suggested changes. It's quite near perfect. Here's my suggestions:
- Get an entirely new background. Grab some nice sky from somewhere else, maybe jack up the saturation on it and make more blue. Something. The current background, well, I'm sure I don't need to talk about it too much :\ There's black edges everywhere, and the shade of it changes halfway to the top.
- Change the lighting model as well. The awkward shadowing just seems out of place. Try and replace the entire lighting model with someone from another stage that has something more normal and bright.