this is really a collection of programs used, but it's vue that created the atmosphere, so i think it was the major contributor. the altar was modelled by me in lightwave and inspired from the game Sacrifice, the guy is just default P4 dude with zygote robe thing, skeleton also from poser. the top picture is the original render (which even like that took a few hours) and the bottom was after i messed with it in Particle Illusion (that program is REALLY cool!). the drawback is that because it's an animation program, it reduces the image quality, that's why you can see the lines going across it. when i showed my girlfriend though, she said it makes it look as though he's drawing the air around him into him or something, which i had to agree with heheh anyway, i hope you like :) next we'll take a trip to Smiland, stay tuned! ;)