It looks to me like you used a bevel/emboss effect on the renders used, or more precisely the ship and character. Generally this gives the renders in question a rather odd look, so... Yeah. It's nice, but the renders just look a little bit too washed out, as Peter pointed out.
*Shrug*
Sorry for sticking my head in here.
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