oh that is fun!!!! love it!! thanks for sharing.. you know what you need to do? plug into the ball a turbulence 3Dtexture node but not to high value this will help you for sure... I will finish the skies so it will looks better as the standard Poser5 clouds.. you can also plug into the ball (bump) a grayscale image, just paint soft over on black background .. or wait I have something for you.. plug it as bump map for the ball on the middle where your hipo is inside, this will everything you need to do.. with this map I created the effect of the animation too but was animated bump map

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