"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right." ~Henry Ford Here's my latest test with Cycles. This time to play around with compositing. I just love how Cycles handle GI and light bounce so well. The model was a product of a modeling sprint done by me and my friend Floren Bautista, and the closest subject was the wooden persona on top of my desk. :) Only the wooden persona is CG, the background photo is from Romain Guy and is used here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) License. You can find the original photo here http://www.flickr.com/photos/romainguy/6068294974/ Problems, challenges, and workarounds: - Cycles viewport render doesn't match actual Cycles render (some objects appear pure black); - so I had to manually save a screenshot of the viewport render, then use the actual render's alpha values to mask the viewport render output - a little selection feathering and 1 pixel increase in GIMP, then delete unnecessary screenshot bg (to create a transparent bg) Modeling, texturing, compositing: Blender Rendering: Cycles More info here: http://reynantem.blogspot.com/2011/11/dreams.html