Here is my entry. This happens to be the current project I am working on, it just happened to suit the parameters of this month's contest I thought. BTW, George please note I am the same as soapy, my normal nick but I forget my password to the email for that nick and artzfuct was my original login I setup. I set it up not knowing I couldnt change how my nick would show. artzfuct is my hotmail account...

sorry my comp keeps logging me as artzfuct but I am soapy, haha I need to fix that but keep in mind I am both.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=artzfuct

4 teams of 2 sounds good to me, whatever, if anyone wants to be my partner let me know. Or chicken soup maybe you could just divvy up the teams or you could do it alphabetically. YOu can check out my demented stuff at the link below: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=artzfuct

Flickerstreak pretty much nailed it, the only thing i would add is that you should know that there is a render options tab in bryce that you can click that will let you adjust the rendering quality settings for several things or turn them off. These include antialiasing, spatial optimization, gamma correction and 48 bit dithering, turning this stuff off considerably speeds things up for test renders. You can turn it back on for your final and go to a movie or whatever... I also use Roobols strategy of rendering large without the extras and then downsampling in photoshop and it seems to work pretty well.

Hehhe, i keep thinking that alley cat is getting ready to have that smoke..

Your image may not be posting if it has a preview so save it without, save for web in photoshop is a quick way to do this. On the mapping question I have found that poser maps tend to look a bit washed out in bryce, so I darken them up a bit for bryce.

Dave, if you are going to visit the north pole you really should get a decent winter coat. ;-) Top of the season to you!

Here is my info: Bryce 4 - advanced Poser 4 - advanced Photoshop 5.5 - advanced Amorphium 1 - beginner Painter 6 - moderate