It's the judge, from the trial... That's what it reminds me of. (Don't have to be all that old to remember The Wall). :)

Hmm, that fractel makes me think of Pink Floyd's The Wall for some reason. You know the scene I'm talking about?

Awesome Stotty, I like that one a whole lot!

Pete the Zombie sez: "I paid five bucks and there wasn't a single zombie in the darned thing, what a ripoff! And no brains for my popcorn! I want a refund."

Aww darn, I was gonna post some really decent shredded corpse photos. Ah well. :)

Ok, hope it's a good 'un. :)

Hmm, we're a week into October... I was hoping to see the challenge and be able to get started. Darn. How long do you usually wait if someone doesn't post the challenge before issuing a new one? Mike

Congrats Sigmadog... Sorry for not posting sooner, been sick and only just able to get back on the computer. Looking forward to the October challenge. -Mike

Wow, I didn't expect to get any votes at all. Next month I promise to do something a lot more interesting though. This is fun. I hope whoever wins picks a good spooky theme (no pressure here, I just dig horror). :)

1. Bryster 2. Ang25 3. Stotty (That is, 3pts for Bryster, etc)... Hope this is the right way to vote. Sorry if it isn't.

Ouch.. That IS a long time. I imagine your hardware has a lot to do with that though. I've done several rather complex renders on my new machine and none of them took more than 30-45 minutes. On my previous rig, they'd take at most an hour. But I'm not using Bryce most of the time, I use TrueSpace for most of my stuff. I need to find my Bryce CD and reinstall. I'm still putting things back together here, haven't done a Bryce piece in a long time. I've always found that most people are a lot better than I am with that particular program. Ah well.

I wasn't even aware there were other challenge forums. I've had this bookmarked (along with the main page) for, uh, years, but didn't know of other challenge forums. This place is huge. :) Tresamie, without knowing more about your hardware and the image you're trying to render it's hard to say what could be causing the lag, it could be any number of things. Maybe when it's finished it'll be more apparant what about it could have taken so long. Looking forward to seeing it though. Regards, Mike

I feel afraid... Very afraid... Don't hurt us tresamie. :) Honestly, sounds like it should be a good'un, can't wait. So, on average, how many people usually participate in these monthly contests now-a-days? -Mike

I could have sworn I saw a post with the deadline in it but I guess I was mistaken. Well, it's only halfway through the month so I'd guess we've got time to go yet. We do something similar to this on my pyrography web site, it's not really a competition though, just a "monthly burn" but we have categories and so forth, people really enjoy it. I can't wait for October, which I'm only hoping is going to be a horror theme, then I can go to town and do something wicked. :) -Mike

You just keep making the cool pics Amethyss, the grammar police are on vacation. :) -Mike