My intentions with this picture were to capture - in an image - a moment of extreme action. It required intricate posing of Malena's figure with her power rifle. The salamander was created mainly with sPatch. Each body part was separately created to allow final composition in Bryce. The texture maps were made with UVMapper combined with a Bryce bump map. The desert lamp was the main light source with the moon providing fill in lighting. After initial rendering the full scale picture went through extensive post-production using Corel PhotoPaint 8 where problem areas such as Malena's hip area, her hair and the motion blur and scuffed up sand were added element for element. Slight adjustments with Corel Photopaint's Level Equaliser and Contrast and Adaptive Unsharp were added as well.