Yeah from what I've read/seen, the eyeball does cause some wackiness as does the eyebrow. I did some renders of Mike 2 and ended up just deleting the eyeball or setting all of its properties to none. Didn't seem to have that probelm with Vicky 3 interestingly enough. (You know echo, that last image you posted is actually kinda cool looking in a creepy sort of way. Good to see you got the hair looking right though!) re: closeups...yeah they do look pretty sharp in carrara. I'm sure they'd look great in Poser as well (and I've seen some people do great looking ones) but Poser is much slower on my machine than Carrara, and using a hi res texture will either bring things to a screeching halt or just crash the app outright.