An enormous amount of time was spent creating this picture. The "dromas" took 56 hour alone to create! The texture & bump maps for Malena and her male companion were totally recreated as well to be compatible with the new Poser 4 figures. The droma creatures were modelled using sPatch to create the basic body shape, and then Amorphium was used to add the musculature and body armour. The harness was created using sPatch objects and Bryce 4.1 primtives. The moisture suit's headgear were modelled as well with sPatch and converted to Wavefront .OBJs with 3DWin, a freeware file converter. Steven Cox's UVMapper was used to create the texture mappings and Corel Photo Paint 8 for the texture maps and final post-production. Post-production consisted of general cleanups of the texture maps, removal of modelling & rendering artifacts and a 25% adaptive unsharp filter. The composition was based on a small pencil sketch. The image had to communicate a vast open plain and elements were carefully placed to lead the viewers eye across the picture from closeup (right) to infinity (left).