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In an earlier thread, the topic of 'Heavy Metal' magazine came up. In my neural network of sometimes fleeting thoughts, the name 'Heavy Metal' sparked up a memory of an artist and a character that I completely stored away in my brain warehouse. The artist: Marco Patrito, an internationally known author and illustrator. The character: SINKHA from the 3D Graphic novel of the same name. Back in '97 I using Strata Studio Pro 1.5 as my only modeling program. A friend of mine, who very was into 'Heavy Metal' magazine showed me an issue that included a story illustrated completely as 3D art. I was taken aback by the way the 3D characters and environments looked. So amazingly beautiful! Of course, I bought the issue. I was also pleasantly surprised because all the character models and environments in SINKHA were created in Strata Studio, an accomplishment unheard of at the time. I never considered Strata to be good at organic modeling but I realized how wrong I was. For me, aside from multimedia and low resolution video games I saw human characters and the worlds they belonged to fully realized as 3D art. You could say, it opened my eyes to other 3D applications like Poser and Bryce. I was working at Apple computers at the time and came across the multimedia CD-Rom of the SINKHA and found the animations that accompanied the 3D graphic novel just as compelling (for its time, of course). Well, the following year I moved away to work for MetaCreations in Carpenteria. Same year I got married. A few years and a few moves later, the kid was born. I haven't thought about SINKHA for years...until this morning. Well, I'm happy to see that the SINKHA universe has expanded and grown in complexity. There is a new adventure coming out called, Hyleyn. I just downloaded the trailer for Hyleyn and it is stellar. The artwork today, as it was in 1997, is phenomenal! My questions to the community is: What first got you interested in 3D art or 3D modeling? Back then, what inspired you and what inspires you now? Who remembers SINKHA? -DefaultGuy