Reptilian leather-wing gliders wheel over rocks on the Glittering Stone Coast in the milky Northern Sea. It will be dark in a few hours but sun is finally showing through previously stormy clouds and the leather-wings are enjoying the warmth. --- Vue 6. Earlier and simpler image redone with more dramatic weather and some tweaking (about two weeks worth! Damn you, time!) plus some translucent bat-like creatures crafted by gluing two copies of a freeware dino wing end to end! Ahem. Unfortunate creatures are not only headless but legless too which must limit their lifestyles... but they definitely look alien :) Translucent material created to let sunlight show through thin parts of the wings brightly. The foreground rocks now use displacement mapping for all textures providing a lot of detail (even though the shadow of the lead glider creature is lost in it all :( ). Fringing of turbulent water around the rocks were generated by placing invisible cones below and using the Distance to Object Below function in mixing two water materials. Rocks are built-in Vue creations with dynamic subdivision turned on with foreground rocks to eliminate jagged edges. The plant life is default corral with a colour distribution map and the green stuff is just what happens when you turn on displacement mapping with a moss texture (tweaking up the quality slider there significantly improved the look). Full resolution is 2200 x 1250, 10 hours to render (E6600 2.4 oc 3GHz). Uploaded resolution 1024x640 (please zoom in to see better detail!). No post work outside Vue.