This is an alter room that I did for a class this fall, I feel that most of it is pretty good, except for the alter, I'm going to be redoing that. Feel free to critique other things.
The base Mesh template was provided by Daniel Burwin, I cleaned up the mesh, and did everything else.
Lighting is Vertex Color and Alpha Shadow Overlays. I hade a strict tri limit of 5000
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I like the technical restrictions, sounds like a fun challenge.
Right now the alter is dim and instead there are some lights on the floor that aren't doing much of anything for your scene other than taking focus away from the alter.
I suggest you make that sphere part of the alter glow brightly and be the main source of light and focus in your scene, like your concept art.
Godrays emanating from the alter with some high contrast lighting in the rest of the scene might be cool.
well, i like my DYNAMIC LIGHTING!!!!!