July Challenge: "Expression of Surprise"

Theme: Expression of Surprise
Something related to an expression of surprise. With this theme the emphasis should be on using expressions to their full extent. It can be a scene about anything you want so long as at least one character looks surprised at something that has happened or about to happen in the scene. It should contain at least one figure, whether that's Poser's default characters or any other third party ones. Postwork encouraged. Click here for the July THEME thread. Final render must be in Poser, any version. No nudity, implied sexuality, or violence. Please click here for the expanded challenge rules page and always remember the TOS. Open to all Renderosity members. Please keep the images to a maximum of 800 pixels by 600 pixels and not more than 150k. Thumbnails MUST be included, and must be the correct size: 100 X 100 pixels. Challenge starts "July 4, 2004" and ends "Monday, July 26, 2004" at "Midnight" Renderosity time. One image per person. Feel free to post your WIP's in the Poser Forum for feedback. Gold Challenger picks the next month's theme subject to approval by the challenge managers.

Judging / Voting:

Voting will take place in the forum in a special voting thread after the challenge closes and is open to all forum members. Only The Voting that appears within the Poser Forum Thread is valid! Voting will begin at close of the challenge and will be open for 3 days closing on "Friday, July 30, 2004 at midnight Renderosity time". The challengers will be posted shortly after the close. Announcement of challengers will be in the Poser forum as well as on the challenge page. When the voting thread is posted assign points in the following manner:

• 3 points to the best image,
  2 points to the next best
  1 point to your third best choice.

Gold Challenger will be the one with the most points. Second is Silver Challenger and Third is Bronze Challenger.

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