I like what you have done so far and think that you might want to look at some pictures of kids to give you some ideas. but other then that I think you are off to a great start.

You are askinga hard question with this one bud. i mean butch has a point. Those are his likes, but some of the guy won't say thats what they want. I agree she has to have all that but i want the right bottom to go with the legs, the hair should touch her waist. Small to mid chest. But Not all guys like that or women for that matter. So watch the different answers you get and see the "Paradox."

Ron. The character you are talking about was in the second book. The miko and she was the wife of Senjin, althought this was not riveled till nick killed her. but you are right we have never talked about the books and i didn't know you liked his work. I have every book written by him and I mean the hard backs. I wish he was still writing, but after his wife dies I think it took the spark out of his writing. But at lease we both share the same author and you are right it has been over a year since we met.LOL

It would seem that great minds do think alike. Well the name " Senjin" came from my favorite author: Eric Van Lusterbader. When I was in the army and in the hospital. I had nothing to do but read.( it's hard to do anything else when you are in traction for 124 days. ) Well he created this character that was a bad guy but after reading the second book: " the Miko" you see just why the guy is bad and why he did the things that he did in the first book. " The Ninja." well i liked the character so much that when I first came on line I decided that it would be my handle and over the years many of my friends have asked why and then I would let them borrow the books to read for themseleves. Then they would come back with: " Hey Barry, that guy is so evil. You are nothing like him." I just laughed and always told them that they would have to know me better to understand why I like him so much. Over time many of them have seen that the character and I are a lot alike. I trained in Japan and think in the same way they do. But it was not till something major happened that they found out just what it was that I trained in. Now all of them understand why I chose that name. Later came Paradox and I have chosen it as my second handle, because my Sensi last words to me were that this is what I am and who I shall always be. So I guess what I am getting at is, I think we chose our handles because of the verious parts of our being or because we think the name sounds cool.LOL Anyway Ron is a good bud and seems to be in the: "Paradox" state of mind

You know I have wondered the same thing for a while but then went back and read the contract about posting the images here. I know it said: " Extreme Violence." But what about mode Violence? I saw a picture where a character had be headed a figure and blood was added. So that made me wonder why the checkbox was missing also. But let us hope we get an answer.

Ok ron I have Ver 6 and you can download the demo of the program from the site. Remember that I am ok with the program and the master of these programs are as follow: Truespace: Phil C Rhino: Xurge Amapi: Dolly Sorry if I left anyone out or any programs, but I can't keep all of you in my head. The three listed are people who I speak too all the time.LOL So grab the program and then do what I did burn the midnight oil, read all that you can get your screen to load and bug the hell out of one of these three ( Just kidding or am i? ).LOL Naw they are great and the guys in the forums ( some of them) will go out of there way to help you or at the very lease will give you a link that will show you a step by step how to get what you want out of the programs. Oh and I have lightwave, tried it twice. I just did not like the inter face of it and then all the tools got me all confused. But it is a good program when you want to add something to and obj. Thanks the John Hoagland, I figured out how to add a cape to this chest armor that Xurge helped me make. So its not all bad just ugly.LOL

Ok. I for one have tried all the programs listed and a few that are not listed by my mentor Phil C. But for me the only one that I could really understand is Amapi. Phil took the time to teach me the ends and out of truespace, I just did not get it. Then I moved to rhino, Serge was way cool to help me understand how the program works but I still could not get things to look the way I wanted. Then I met Dolly and he turned me on to Amapi. I did not get the way they things work. But then he told me about the latest vershion of the program and I fully understood how to do some of the stuff that I want to do. So I guess what I am saying is all programs do not work for all people. Ron I am like this, if a program gives me to much trouble in the working of it then it hits the trash. If not for the forum here at render then I would never have met any of the great teachers that I have had. My advice to you is to look in the forums and go through them and read all you can about who is doing what with what program. Then try them all and find one that works for you.

I think the figure could be done, but require a lot of thought. I mean odin in so many books is a little different. in the history one he seems to be a good guy who is fair, yet smart enough to know that nothing lasts forever. But in other books is like this great god of vengence. So I say make the figure the way you see him and then let others see if they can see in him what you saw when you made him.

Thanks will do, but I did a picture which I will be adding to the gallery and turned the cast shadows off and the figure still has a shadow???

Ok will try. I did now can you tell me how I can make the skin not look so white or rather how I can make the skin look more real?

Thanks and I am going to read it now.

Yep that helps alot. But I do building things in Amapi or lightwave. But you figured that out, so this really does explain the question i was asking. Thanks

Ok Foloeypro, how do you do that??

Thanks alot. now all I have to do is go to the directory and copy it to another file.

Hey gyuys thanks so much for the help. I am out to win this contest and really needed the brushes and actions to help with the effect. thanks again and keep it comming.