"... beneath the twin moons of Nebulon 6, a rare and delicate Arcturian hummingbat feeds on a stand of variegated starflowers, surrounded by the coarse bristles of bottlebrush grass ...." Reprinted with permission from Interstellar Geographic, Issue 4216 What started as an idle few minutes with the Hair module turned into something more involved, as it often seems to do. The starflower petals, sepals and stamens are all Hair objects, as are the bristles of the bottlebrushes and, of course, the hummingbat's fur; the fur required over 150,000 hairs all told. The remaining objects (the stems and leaves of the plants, and the body and wings of the hummingbat) are all box-modelled object; the whole scene has about 28000 polys, mostly from the hummingbat; I ended up having to convert the hyperNURBs to an object because the hairs weren't following the smoothed shape. The scene uses a 3-point lighting setup to simulate a nighttime flash photo, and took about 7 minutes to render. All textures are procedural, and created from scratch for this image. Enjoy!