The woman, cat and dog are standard Poser 4, the bottles on the mantle (that you can barely see) I downloaded as a freebie from somewhere, everything else (except the standard tree, whose color I just changed) I made with my own fair hands in Bryce 4. Well, technically the curtains are the premade column object, flattened out and made wider.

Let loose with the commentary (if you have any left this late in the challenge!) :)

Lin

You did a great job and the curtains look good...Sharen

It does smell of preset mats somewhat though I like the atmosphere a great deal - well done

Autumn is sweet and warm as you made it. Cheers

The best place to be during autumn, in front of a roaring fire. I like. Catlin

Nice Trick with the Curtains. First time I seen that. Play with your textures alittle and you'd be surprised with the results you can achieve. Nice job on placing the figures of the girl and dog so they are actually looking at each other. To often you see renders where figures that are clearly interacting just staring past each other or into space. I wish My dog would sit that nice. Give that dog a bone. :)

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Yes, I still tend to hang with the prefabricated textures, just to make my life easier. Eventually I'll have to play with textures more. :) I really worked on getting the lighting to look good. I didn't want the outside too dark, but I didn't want the room too light. Eventually I just built a box around the figures and the camera, except for the window to block out the sun from the room, really darkened up the back wall and the curtains and finally got the effect I wanted. The other hard thing was getting the cat on her lap to look vaguely like a cat. Not so easy when you are using the existing textures and the cat curled up pose. :) This scene came to my mind after the whole 'geographical influences' discussion. I figured some sort of homage to all our pets, past present and future would be nice. Lin

Thanks Lin Catlin

You are welcome Catlin.