.. or after seeing some great galleries here with only 2 comments realize - everyone else is just speechless!! :) This could be so, Dobblecheese, but in many ways this place is also a sort of popularity contest, and if you are not popular, many times your work doesn't receive comments. There are more than a few people who have left this place because of a perceived cliquish feel here. Some people will only remark on the works of certain people, even if those works are entirely unremarkable, while other -- far better -- works go unremarked just because they aren't by popular posters. Anyway, I think all of those things and more feed into that. I've got to tell you that your rendering of the snare drum is marvelous -- particularly the chrome bits. I started playing around with 3D Studio and then Studio Max, but I discovered that I hate vertices and kept to fractals and digital art. :)