Hello everyone and thanks for looking... One of my recent pictures became my most favorited image, and since so many of you liked it I decided to expound on the theme. Besides, every good sorcerer has to have a demon to battle, don't you think? As usual for pictures like this, I sketched out what I had in mind, this one on a post-it note. I find it really helps to have an idea of what you want your picture to end up like, but most of my pictures take on a life of their own. ^_^ I set up my V3 character in Poser 7, using the 'She-Freak'and 'Freaky Devils' morphs. I clothed her in a simple dynamic cloth dress, calculated it, and saved the result. In Vue I built a random object from a bunch of stretched spheres, and grouped them into a metablob. I gave it a red wine liquid texture with a little displacement map for the surface ripples. Then I imported my Poser character, played with her dress texture and gave her sword blade a glowing material. I tried to make the eyes glow too, but I don't think it came out well. After rendering the picture once (four hours), I made some tweaks then rendered again (all night). The resulting image I only used Photoshop on to give my blob shapes a radial blur to make them more 'splashy', and that's it. What do you think? I'd love to hear if you have any ideas on things I could have done to improve on the effects. As always, your comments are the reason I keep trying to improve. Thanks, and have a great weekend. Tom Seaview123 PS--Here's a link to an older work of mine, I think these guys might be related!