Barbarellany, I see your points. However, I must disagree. Rendering in an app such as Lightwave or 3dsMax or Cinema4D can produce some very high quality renders, particularly when compared to those done in P4/3. But it's not as simple as pressing a button. To get great results, you still have to know a lot about what you are doing, and there are some complicated settings and materials that would need to be mastered in order to get a great render. The same could be said for postwork in photoshop or whatever program. You need some skill to make hair look good and match the lighting, etc. And you still need to know your tools. Some people are professional 2D painters, and this comes easy to them. Still others can use pre-made tutorials and brushes that automatically make some decent looking hair in about the same amount of time as rendering an image in a higher end app. Some people just can't paint. Some don't have PS or any high end rendering apps at their disposal... For those people, making the playingfield even would mean there should be no postwork OR outside apps used. Then all the images judged would be so done on the skill of the "poser" himself, as rendered by the original application.