Hi Folks! Thanx for the comments! Here are few things about metaballs that you all might find useful. Metaballs don't boolean! :-(. Not even if you were to group them. They generally act as stand alone! How ever I found an easter egg in Susan Kitchen's site! Shift clicking when you click on the metaball icon creates a negetive metaball and you can use this to sculpt the positive metaballs! (I created the nostrils and the mouth in this manner!) I wish the metaballs could boolean, the surface tension or the sphere of attraction of the metaballs could be adjusted, there were meta-primitives (sphere, cuboid, cones etc) and people in Bryce PLEASE GIVE A MIRRORING device! 80% of the time goes mirroring/creating the other side of the body! assigning two different textures (or even setting different values of the same texture) creates interesting effects! But rendering such an effect is a different story!!!! I had a much more interesting texture done but couldn't use it as it was a killer render!! Possibly will a little later down the line! Also, by now my image has been trolled! Sigh! I guess it takes all kinds to make the world, but somehow the community renderosity, or should I say the spirit of the community, is the casualty of such acts!