Thanks Bop and Larry for your kind words :) Maybe when I get brave in about an ahem year mumble or so I'll attempt a tutorial heheh I have been thinking of sharing some humble mats and maybe some object I have made with the rest if you'd be interested...remember I still feel as I am learning Vue so they may not be as good as others that have shared their work in here. Been taking care almost 'round the clock of my very ill and frail elderly mother, but I promise as soon as I get a chance I will zip up what I have and share the stuff I have made if y'all want them. Larry ya cracked me up with your reply, just wanted you to know that LOL That was too funny :))) Marvilla

You got that right Laurie...hubby and I are in the graphics and web design business and we always advise any up and coming designers we meet to concentrate fully on developing their skills in Photoshop and Illustrator if they want to get hired by the major graphics houses. My husband is more geared to 3D imagery and animation and uses Maya and Lightwave as his two major tools...but like I said before, I'm stil a newbie when it comes to 3D and Vue is just perfect for me at this time :) Marvilla

Thanks MikeJ...more neat rocks to add to my 'MikeJ' objects folder which already holds quite a few previously saved items :) Thanks for the extra materials and bumps also... Marvilla

This image is beautiful! Love the sepia tone and the slight grainy feel to it...very effective. Marvilla

Thanks Sharen and Laurie, and of course I'm staying and posting more...I love this place! :) And yes Laurie, I have worked some with Painter...it's a wonderful program for achieving painting realism but it's learning curve is very steep...at least for me, I find Photoshop much easier. I usually open up Painter, start working in it, get frustrated because I can't figure out how to create a particular effect that's in my mind and wind up switching back to Photoshop when my confidence starts to slip LOL I definitively have a lot of learning yet to do in Painter, that's for sure! Marvilla

Awesome to know you visited the website tesign and I appreciate your kind comments, thank you! grin I haven't updated the site in a while...maybe now I'll get back to work on it and update the gallery and backgrounds sections with more recent images. Marvilla

Wowser! blush What a wonderful welcome and thank you all so much for your lovely comments on the image...y'all have made my day! :) Sharen I have been playing with Vue for about 6 months...I have been working with 2D graphics for over five years now but had never really gotten into 3D except for a little dabbling with Bryce abvout 2 years ago, but honestly I never really felt comfortable with Bryce so I didn't try again until I found Vue d'Esprit and immediately fell in love with it. Here is the URL to my graphics website, maybe when y'all have a few spare minutes you may like to visit it, I sure would love having you stop by: http://www.xtremedigitalmedia.com/marvilla/ Bloodsong the building is a model I found at 3D Cafe: http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/architex.asp it's called Pueblo and that's where I got the name for this image g Again, thank you all, you really made me feel welcome here today :) Marvilla

Thank you tradivoro, so glad you liked it! :) The folded blanket is a model I picked up at Wire Monger's website which I textured myself using a Mexican rug image: http://www.wiremonger.com/ Some of the other textures, such as the building walls are Graphtallica textures from: http://www.3dworldmag.com/resources/models_default.asp They have some excellent textures to create materials from, some of my very favorites. Marvilla

Thank you Laurie and tesign, compliments on my work from the both of you mean a lot to me. I have admired what both of you do with Vue very much so I'm happy with the image if you enjoyed it! :) Marvilla