Blender, Poser, Photoshop, MyPaint, Fireworks IDL, GC, and SSS ---- Hello to all and thanks so much for viewing my work! And an extra thanks to those who take the time to give me some feedback on my work. I really appreciate it. This is from a another contest I didn't enter because I just couldn't seem to get the image together and working. I'd say in time, but this still feels incomplete to me. But I tried adding different elements, and none of them worked. So I let it go, and figured I'd get to make up for it in a future work. This kind of epitomizes why I don't tend to do outdoor images. I really need to teach myself how to make outdoor compositions. This is way too square, and way too lopsided, but cropping didn't help. It has some good points, so I figure it's good enough to post, but flawed enough to learn from. I made all of the clothing, which was fun, and created the grass on the ground in Blender. If I do something like this again, I'll probably render in Blender rather than Poser, because Poser couldn't handle the grass as well as I wanted (though it was still impressive). Oddly, it either didn't render at all or rendered very quickly. The grass is all mesh, except for the edge (which I didn't make). I modeled a clump of grass and then distributed it on an edited version of the RDNA grassy knoll using particles and a painted texture. I had to use Photoshop to fill in some holes in the grass, becasue that knoll looks strictly unconvincing to me with its bald but textured top and grassy edges. That all said, That grass is _very_ high poly, and Poser did a much better job with this scene than I expected. The dress is roughly based on some references I could find of Irish dresses from the past. I don't want to say a time period, because I don't think the references were so accurate I could really say. I tried to make a version of that style of dress that was more based on flowers and natural elements. It's all dynamic (mostly) and static (a few) props, and actually simmed without a problem. The texture is kind of a quickie, and was painted in a combination of programs. The materials on it, and on everything else, are from my Essential Materials 01: P9+. I consider the dress a success, though I'd start over if I wanted to make it for other people to use. The design needs some refining. The mane, tail, and much of the hair are painted. That said, the rendered hair uses Desir Hair by AlfaSeed, which performs very well, even without any transparency. I painted some of the horse, though I should have done much more. The background is actually Bagginsbill's EnviroSphere with some painting to deal with the low resolution of the portion of it in the render. I also did some painting on the water, because I found it a bit difficult to figure out the right scale for waves. The light comes from the sphere, an infinite for the moon, the glowing prop in the lamp (an adjustment of the Enchantress FX free props), and a point for the lamp. The point had a few issues with elements being so close to it, so I did a render with it on and with it off and combined the two.