OK, as some of you may have noticed, I have claimed at times to be a wacky robot. This started as a one-time joke on Usenet, in the dog newsgroups, but has developed into an on-line persona of a robot who owns and trains a dog (RoBoTeRrI). No excuse for it really, besides the fact that I am easily amused, and certain people who I like to entertain were entertained by the idea of me being a robot, while at the same time people who I like to irritate found my robot jokes irritating. So, now that I've gotten a bit better at using Carrara, I'm thinking it would be funny to take some pictures of me-as-robot training Harlan. In other words, staging some photos with Harlan running around or whatever, and photoshopping a robot into the pics. The character I have in mind is a three-legged sort of spider thing. I'm thinking that would be pretty easy to model and pose. Anyway, so far I figure that when it comes to texturing the robot, I should avoid reflective textures, since that will be harder to match into scenes. Does that sound right? Also, I need to figure out how to make sure the robot stays consistant looking in size. Lighting will be important too, and lighting is tricky for me anyhow. Any ideas/suggestions/whatever?