Nazul
I don't do abstracts much any more 'cause I think more about "scene" creation and IMHO, good abstracts are much harder to make than a scene, as they are often the result of accidents when messing aorund then coming up with good ways to use them ;)

this is my abstract page on my site:
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/artofadreamer/htm/3dfantasy3.htm

"Chain Glass" was done with Vue, rest with Bryce. Chain Glass I coudl redo I guess as that was done on old machine a few years ago and the amount of reflections/refractions was simply crazy, hehe.

Dhama,
yeah Carrara is..oh....amateurish UI, it's just not really nice. UI's though are terribly personal choices!

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