Hi, Here is an image I'm working on right now. I've got a couple of questions. FIrst off: the lighting, I always have trouble with figuring out how to light scenes. I've been experimenting a little but on my computer this scene, even when quality is dragged far down, takes awhile to render, so testing gets a little tedious.

But my main question has to do with the liquid inside the floating-brain water tanks. It seems that no matter how I set the transparency of the inner liqid, it still comes off as being far too transparant except for the ellipse forming the surface of the liquid. I created the inside shape in the usual manner, i.e. replicating the outer shape, undoing the combine as compound on the cross-sections and then just keeping the full inner shape. (hope that makes sense).

Keep in mind this is an unfinished image. The room still needs a fair amount of "dressing up". The playing cards are blank for now. And some of the limb positioning needs to be tweaked.

Thanks for any and all input.
Cheers,
H&B