OK, let's see...you're ugly and your mother above dresses funny... No, seriously, if you are indeed a newbie, this is very impressive work. The fiddley critique would be to: 1. slightly bend the elbows, the arms look painfully stiff. 2. work on a more natural position for the hands/fingers, especially the right hand. other than that it looks pretty @#%%^% good! Scarab

I'll agree with Scarab. Did you look under the menu and check "use limits" before posing her? That ought to keep elbows from going quite that straight. And for the hands, what emotional gesture are you after? a threat (the mummy will get you), a supplication (please join me for a hot time), a demand (you will bend to my will), a display (I'm a hottie!) or what? You can use the hand cameras to zero in and pose each finger once you decide what message you want them to deliver. Her body posture is fine, and that seems to be Nerd's chain mail bikini... with the bump mapping, it has a scaley look which adds to the image. There is a transmap for that hair, but if you used it, you'd lose the hair to the lighting. It is probably better to leave it as is. This has a wonderful use of lighting. It looks like you used a fire texture over a transparent shape with flukes to get such a lovely effect. If this is a "newbie pic" we'll all be slobbering over your future work. Overall, enough of her is solid and enough aetherial to make a compelling image. Nice work! Carolly

I agree. A new to poserite? Hrmmm... choice work. In six month we'll be wandering the galleries to see what you try next. ;] I'd play with what the people above me said to try... all very good suggestions. Only other thing that I'd do is play with some smudging & blurring to the light cone in post work - the faceted look steals a bit of the "magic" effect. But that's post effects - on the poser work itself, you're doing nicely.

thanx guys & gals... i appreciate the advice ill work on some more renderings to post tonight and try to get another image up in a few days.. got work to catch up with.. anyone got lighting tutorials i cant seem to get the effects i desire and i want to know if its possible to create a scaleable light set on a circle say that will keep the lights placement arround the circle constant but let me scale the cicrle or a lights placed back to back in the hopes of creating a starburst... or to place into a glass sphere to light from within at all angles... any help appreciated.. thanx...

Hrmmm... you're starting to get into advanced lighting in poser on some of that. I could point to tutorials in bryce, but on poser lighting I'm not sure. Did you check in the tutorials category/link for lighting? Maybe advanced lighting in poser?