As usual the original image in my head was much more grand and many more characters (It's probably time to buy some more ram). Not too happy with the reflections on the swords. Not sure how to do the shaders on them. Although this scene was not directly a result of the Carrara 8 training tutorial from infinite skills, I just thought I would mention that I just bought it and learned a lot of things that helped me build this scene with much less cursing than normal. I purchased the advanced tutorials several months ago and learned a lot, but I found in this more "basic" course a lot of things that helped me out even after the five months or so that I have played with Carrara. - and I haven't even watched half of it yet. Soon I may unravel the secrets of carrara hair... Tech notes- I used HowieFarkes' Stony creek spruce as a backdrop to this scene (but it was all one scene). I did the shaders for this Luthbel outfit. Got the texture from cgtextures.com and then tweeked them to this. built a few procedural shaders and used one more shader from Indigone at sharecg http://www.sharecg.com/v/24272/View/7/Material-and-Shader/Watered-silk-procedural-shaders-for-Carrara-6.1 I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.