Ah, well, I decided to try to go with my original "pun"... So here I have a still (that's the pun btw, just for those who don't have English as their native tongue), with bottles, glasses and stuff. (And before I forget - Thx to 3DCafe for their bricks texture. I hope to do my own before the challenge finishes.) My main (current) problems: 1. How do I reduce the severity of those ugly black shadow on the heater (the equally ugly thing under the still)? I added an extra light (2 lights; 1 the usual sun + 1 I added to try to soften the shadow. didn't work:-P ) 2. How should I re-arrange things so that the eye travells naturally to the centre of focus? (Btw - I intend to try to add a "droplet" to the end of the spout, just about to drop into the bottle. Oh - and add legs (where necessary) to the table.) 3. errm -- Anything else that will help me win this month's challenge:-) ('cos I got a GREAT idea for next month's!!) All Bryce 3D (it moves) + a bit of my own stuff created in AC3D and OpenFX. Apart from the above mentioned Bricks texture. Love to all, and thanks if you reply, Cheers, Diolma