Well, as I started this thread I'd best say why I joined Renderosity. Strange as it may seem it wasn't by choice and partly by luck.

I work as a programmer for a UK bank who are making me redundant in 2009 after 25 years service. I decided to make something good happen out of the situation by retraining but I didn't really know what in. As I'd already wirtten a few web sites I began with this but soon realised that grapic art was also a bonus.

I looked at a site by Peter Sharpe after searching for digital art examples and found out that he used Bryce to produce his images. I bought a copy of Bryce 6.1 and have been hooked ever since. I hadn't realised at the time that Bryce 5.5 was a free download.

Finding Renderosity was purely by chance when it came up as the first item in a Google search and I posted my first image and forgot about it for a while. I was then amazed when I checked my emails a few hours later to find out that people had been leaving comments ... I hadn't even realised that this was a feature of the site. The rest as they say is history.

I continue to post images as I love hearing what people thing about my work and as a result hope to improve. I also find the sense of community very heart-warming and have made many friends since I joined. Long may it continue.

My favourite artists include e-brink, photostar, grafikeer, buzz-69, nazul and of course debz, who is my wife and who has impressed me so much with her work since I began training her.

Tony :-)