I agree with the observations so far, but I'm just mostly impressed with the quality vs. rendertime. I've been struggling to achieve this kind of GI look in Carrara. Actually, I can get the lighting to look good, but I always end up with noisy artifacts when objects are animated, and it takes very high settings and long render times to clean them up. Yours came out really clean and nice. Wish I had access to that mentalray engine.

Message edited on: 01/30/2006 18:02