Very impressive
I think that this piece demands a little more, because you keep pushing the bar upwards, due to your skill with this program. The lighting is fantastic and it shows off what sort of potential you have for this, in capturing the feelings that go hand in hand with Viking raids, some 1,000 - 1,500 years ago.
I feel that there are still some imperfections, like a gravestone being that close to either the riverbank or the coast, as that's just a silly place to be buried six feet below the surface, as the surface will wash away and expose your bones (and and grave goods) to the wider world.
The flames are merely glows, without form - the randomness associated with the shapes and patterns of flames make them very difficult to get just right, but I feel that you can still do better than this.
With the longboat, where are the oars? Yes, the Vikings are on the shore, busying themselves with rape pillage and sacking, though the oars would not have accompanied them onto the shore, surely (sorry). They would be left in some random fashion protruding from the side of the longboat, as the struggle to disembark quickly and the call to arms took place.
Perhaps a little more in the way of corpses could have been strewn about the place, just to add realism, since the scene looks a little "clean" for that sort of time, when no-one seemed to care much about personal hygiene.
It looks better than your stand alone Roman Villa, but still not quite there for realism, in my eyes.
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