Thanks, nemirc. That sequence where she rubs her neck and then cracks it side to side did give me a bit of a problem at first. Was a minor challenge to get the timing down. I see what you mean about the stretching; however, the model isn't Vicki. ;-) Good point about the ambient shadows on the unlit areas. GI, of course, is usually too slow for animation, and I have only just recently discovered how to bake the GI to texture maps, so I'll be doing that a lot for the environments in the later parts of the movie. Baking the GI really does make a huge difference in the appearance, and is extremely fast. I used a light dome for some of the shots in this opening sequence, but due to the extremely large scale of the environment, it didn't work very well for the ambient shadow effects.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.