This picture explores on of the more bizarre aspects of the lifestyle of the Sadusi of Wesdraken, the knife fight/courting ritual. I relied heavily on the experience and help of Tony Reese (aka Ironfixer) in posing the two figures in a realistic fight scenario. My thanks to him for his help, as well as my good friend and fellow Brycer, Gary Vennie The figures were posed in Poser 4 and exported to Bryce 4. Custom texture and bump maps were created for the special clothing needs of Malena and Braedan. The slot canyon rock formations and textures were heavily researched for 6 months before committing them to custom terrains and some help from Susan Kitchen's "Real World Bryce 4" book on the textures - all in Bryce 4. The lighting was provided primarily by a single volumetric cylindrical parallel light, and was not working until I discovered purely by chance a trick by Jonothan Allen in his "Atmospheric Effects using Volume Lights and Gels" tutorial. Post-production was done with Corel PhotoPaint 10, and was used to repair and correct the joint tearing on both figures and some layering and masking used to enhance the kicked up dust around the feet, as well as a bit of "specular bloom" to add to the atmosphere.