Speaking of time... I used a free pixelfader set from 3dWorld magazine. I guess it has a lot of polygons cuz it was taking nearly 20 minutes to render one frame. I set up a small camera movement and network rendered overnight using 2 nodes - it only got about 50% done. I decided to kill the render and see how the first half looked... Turns out I lost my camera movement and spent 8+ hours rendering a static image for 70 frames :) Live and learn I guess! Phoul, how many hours do you think it took to render your latest demo reel?