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Put a comment in the gallery and over at Big-i too Bill. Some of the best digital images I've ever seen have been from you. I wish that I could sit at your feet and watch you do your magic...maybe I'd learn something ;). Laurie

Wouldn't it be hard to see the monitor from the floor Laurie??? :) Bill, that is a terrific picture.. How long did it take to render???

You don't know all the weird contortive positions I'm in while working on my computer Paul! ;0). Sometimes I AM on the floor on my knees actually behind my chair while I have my arms up over the back of the seat typing. You'd have to see it to believe it ;o). I think I just get tired of sitting and need to change positions or my bottom half goes numb...LOL. Laurie

Laurie - Thanks for all the kind words and its people like you that makes the artistic people world goes beautifully round. Tradivoro - Paul, thank you so much also for the kind rating and words at the gallery. About rendering time, in ultra mode, at 72 dpi, and image pixels size at 1600 by 1200...took close to 18 hrs in "render to screen". I use rendering to screen image setting size larger than Vue default because I'm still 'beta' testing the official 4.03...LOL!...and looks like its stable. I even did a "break" and "resume" twice to see if Vue does all right. Btw, about Laurie, believe here about sitting on the floor and "..weird contortive positions" and getting half numb...I do that sometime and my aging bone sure hurts too! I also light to thanks Beck, SAM3D, MightyPete, MikeJ and some of the others that is from this forum that I may not be familar yet with by names (sorry guys/gals) for their generous rating and kind words :)

Amazing attention to detail! How long did it take you from start to the final composition, before rendering? Rich

Hi Rich, thanks for visiting and time spend on viewing the image. About the start to final, well there is really no fixed period of time in terms of day but I started this one about two months ago. It was a on and off thingy...once the imspiration come, I'm back at it again. Everything is imaginative, no planning and just base on visual satisfaction. The hardest part is trying to get the right appropriate models (Conch, Sea slugs specially model...cannot be seen in the scene is a sea urchin, another speciment of anemone, Sponge tube and a sorta marina life form animal (like a Asparagus))and having Vue to do it right (position of models etc...). Something came along that I did not expect...Vue came to a snail crawl...so much that you have to wait for more than a minute to see the screen redraw, almost 15 to 30 secs to see the item to be selected for your action and action itself would bring you thru a screen refresh. Every step has be taken care to save time, from working with shut off layers to close OpenGL setting. LOL!...moreover the file took almost 2 to 3 minutes to close and open (size 240+meg). I guess I have a lot of things in that scene that cannot be view base on that camera position and angle and its quite discourageing to try and delete them because anytime wnen the view is change, its a lot of waitng time and work over again. With all this consideration...it took about slightly over a month...if it was done continuously...well, 4 days (including test rendering but no post work) the very most. The original render was good enough but anything else like making the diver's tank regulator release bubble with terrain would just run on a pacemaker....LOL!...an using post work is much better and have better control. Glad you all enjoy it and one thing we all know...Vue did it well.

Laurie, I can't imagine what that looks like.. :) But if it works, that's all that matters... :) And Bill, always a pleasure...