Your post inspired me to do this, which in turn I'm using in a broadcast I'm doing on psychopharmacology. This is the last frame of an animation (just a camera crane down) that will be used as a bump between a live panel discussion and a pre-taped expert on drugs used for treating mental illness. Pretty dry stuff, but using some graphics can punch it up a bit. The capsules are two spline objects put together along with a copy of the two objects atomized to be the tiny little pills you can't really see through the semi-transparent capsule skin. The pills with the "C" (for Carrara -- what else?) are also a spline object with the "C" booleaned out. I used maximum surface fidelity for bothe the spline and the text objects and there was only one vertex that was out of place; it was really easy to clean that up in the vertex modeling room. Love this forum, too! - Dex