TITLE: What Fantasy Heroes Do, When Not Fighting Eternal Evil - part I: Pecunia STORY: Vitomir, a talented wizard is performing his most advanced spell: 'compressing' several goblets of (never mind) into golden coins. Suddenly somebody ignorant (behind camera) said loudly: For the first time in his career Vitomir lost his focus when performing a spell - The fractal effect over the altar is a sign, that spell has failed. - And it is going to explode.. CONTEXT: Old king Ventzeslav - owner of the land, where ancient Philosophers' Shrine was placed, met once Vitomir - only wizard capable of using it. That was the beginning of "V&V Goldmakers" JSC. - first industry corporation of the world. It's also (despite big prospects) one of the fastest bancruptcy of the world. TECHNICAL REMARKS: Fractals in 3D space, Ghost materials vs sky setting, 'Crossbreeding' of 3D characters, 3D grass in foreground and Modelling non-terrain with terrain editor were subjects of my experiments in this scene. This is one of my 'neverending' projects that lasted for several months - there was always something to add.. So it's grown pretty overloaded: 8978 objects, 467Mb file (some 2Gb of WIP/aux files). Rendertime: (standart settings) 4days, 21hrs (mostly for AntiAliasing). No postwork except for signature. CREDITS: PDXJim, Valandar, Kozaburo, OMEGA, 12rounds. Thx