I believe there is something called RenderCow!? that is just a a standaolne renderer :) I do not have mover 4 yet, they just sent me a leaflet! :)

I get it now :) sorry! Have you tried painting the splatters on the model's texture?

That's a lot better, I'm afraid -for me- the text on the gravestone isn't quite there yet; and I'm afraid that I think my comments about movement of the woman are still relevent. I'm wondering if it would be wise to reconsider either the motion of the blood ie make it so it has already landed on her, or maybe reconsider the pose? It could just be that I am missing something! ;) What else... there appears to be some of the old style blood on her crotch that looks a bit out of place now, are you using layers? I think that is enough for now! Looking forward to version 3 :)

Very interesting and moving pic! First, if you were feeling like that when you did it or ever- then you have my Condolences hug :) Right, blood then. I have a couple of ideas. Firstly the blood over her crotch; it looks like it is floating, is it still in mid air, or has it landed? The woman looks pretty dead to me, so the blood should have landed, in which case I feel it would be better to paint on the texture map. You can get shapes by dripping paint or soup or something, try bursting a balloon with a bit of paint in it!! Fun too ;) If the blood is in mid air, then that would imply the woman is moving or has just finished moving, either way you might want to consider an ever so slight motion blur. The blood around the hand looks a lot better, especially that coming from the neck of the voodoo doll, though have you tried making it look like it is dripping? Thick arterial blood is the most emotive/scary. I like the effect of dripping blood, almost like spider web in morning dew well sort of! The blood lettering. And I suspect you werent meaning this, but while I am here! The perspective looks slightly wrong Im afraid, if it was me, I would prefer it if it was twisted to the right and laid further back into the pic. Basically I think the you lose should be parallel with the bottom of the gravestone, and the N in now you have found should be parallel to the nearest side with all of the other letters adjusted to match. Maybe make the letters a bit darker and a make them less uniform, maybe some splatter in between the lines. I am suspecting that this is a blood dripping font? Well, I hope I have been of some help. I would like to know how you get on, good luck! :) Steve :)

Additional! I think TV people use special compositing (sp?) software to mix grpahics with film... I think one of the common ones is called Flame.... but I'm not 100% sure on that.... I do know it costs into five figures and everybody using has several years training and experience! I'm afraid your 10k might not go very far :( Best wait for a rollover week, or slip a bribe to that drawmaster guy ;)

The people that did StarTrek Voyager use Lightwave and I believe that the Final Fantasy movie was done in Maya. If its good enough for them, its good enough for me! ;) If I was spending 10k I would probably go for Maya at about 3k and spend the rest on lessons ;) Alternatively, you can get those fancy 3D scanners, so you don't need to model... but I think they start at about 11k and go 40k+ :(

Looks perfect to me! ;) When, where and how will she be available for use?

Don't worry guys! the smoke will only make bees sleepy! I think it's piglet that you have to watch out for, what's he doing lurking in the bg?? ;)

but be careful!!! once you start spending, you may not be able to stop ;)

ShadowWind, don't mention Daikatana! that was a big disappointment when it came out!! :o(

Thanks guys! :) You've all been great; my animation is off to a flying start now :)

Thanks for the tips guys! :) is eye candy like $170 though? :( are there any free ways to make drops? And I don't fret, I mean legal!! I'm just poor! ;)

gotcha!! :) thanks!!

thanks for the encouragement Guitta :) what do you mean by story though? like text? tom clancy hunt for red october kinda thing? ;)

I don't think I ever wne there, but I still think it is sad :o(