Hi bt, I left you a message on one of the Carrara Yahoo forums, regarding a quick tutorial on how you achieved the explosion effect. The Yahoo forums have had some email problems lately, so I figured I'd try again here. You said you were able to use Carrara's Explode modifier so that it breaks things up in "chunks" as opposed to polys. I am very interested to learn how to do this, I've been trying to figure this out for some time. If you would be willing to put together a quick (yet detailed enough) tutorial, video or step-by-step PDF, I'd be willing to pay you for your time. By the looks of some other posts here, others might be willing to as well. So, without begging.. OK I'm begging.. please, I'd love to know how you got Carrara's Explode modifier to do this. Thanks so much- craig