By the way, here is the image I made for the retail pieces. By using the lenticular format, the 3D is just incredible. When you put your finger into it, it looks like it goes right past the dolphin in the front. Anyway, please help me with the rendering speed question I posted.

what did you do to get the mounds so high on the sand. It looks great.

Very Nice. Not too sure about reducing the render speed, wish I could help though. My last render (The Arrival) took a little over two day's to complete. That was with a 233 iMac, 160 real/240 virtual RAM and at 1152x854 pixels.

Man. That's fantastic. Ever think about doing a tutorial on how you acheived such a great underwater effect?

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Welcome Stuie , Rendering is mainly handled through the Processor. Pentium or Athelon variety or one that has the architecture for Graphics. Very convincing Image Hawkfyr

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