Well, here's chapter 3 page 17 of the Girls From T.N.A. at long last! It took a little while to get this one put together - I hope you like the result. I tried a lot of new things with this page; some worked, some didn't. For instance, for the first time I tried importing Poser figures into Vue. Vue didn't want to play nice, and I still haven't got this quite figured out; even with Art's help (thank you, Art!), So I just resorted to doing a little bit more compositing. I made a few backgrounds in Vue, and just applied them to Out Of Touch's excellent "Back" prop. It seemed to work out pretty well this way. The buildings are all freebies by Dryjack, available at Share CG. Thank you, bro, an excellent job on these! I also used my "new" version of Arawen - clothing now fits her much better and more easily! I made the text for the Girls' conversations just a little bit smaller; hopefully it's still relatively easy to read. In frame 4 there was a lot of information I wanted to get across so I had to reduce the text size just a little bit. Things are going to get real interesting for the Girls in the next couple of pages, so be sure to stay tuned! Gaaahhhhhh...... This 512K size limit is killing me...... :-P I've had a lot of things going on the last few weeks, so I haven't been as active here as I would've liked. Hopefully things will calm down a little bit after the holidays. I entered my Martian render in the "Curiosity contest" over at YURdigital.com, and was delighted last week to find that I had taken third-place in that contest! As Rene would say, I picked up a few fat prizes! LOL! I won a copy of Anime Studio Pro 9 from Smith Micro, and a copy of Filter Forge as well! I'm not a huge fan of anime or manga, but the Anime Studio software apparently is great for helping to create comics or similar things, so I'm looking forward to playing with it a bit. And of course the Filter Forge will be fun to play with, too; that is assuming it will work with Photoshop 7. And now speaking of comics... Here's something I'm considering and would like a little input on. I'm thinking very seriously about creating a comic book sized version of the Girls From T.N.A. The format would be slightly different, as the layout would be more suitable for print. The 5 panel pages are great for the web, but they just don't work for print or PDF formats. It would take a lot of work, and I would have to go in and re-create a lot of the artwork, as pretty much all of the artwork for chapter 2 was lost in a hard drive crash I had last summer. Like an idiot, I didn't take my own advice, and hadn't backed up for a long time! Anyway, just something I'm thinking about for the new year. Now I need to get my rear in gear, and get caught up on comments! It seems like I'm falling behind farther and farther, but hopefully I can get caught up today! Hope you all have a great weekend, and happy holidays to everyone! As always, thank you for dropping by my gallery, having a look around, and for all your wonderful comments in support! I'll say it again........ You all rock! Additional credits: Arawen character by P3 Design - not in RMP any longer Backgrounds created in Vue 10 Complete by RodS Old homestead buildings by Dryjack available at share CG Arawen's outfit is the Shado bodysuit available at share CG Lantern from Archive3D.net UFO available at share CG G4's fire red hair by RodS available in Renderosity freebies I forgot to mention earlier, I also uploaded a new tutorial. It's a demonstration on how I put my speech bubbles or balloons together. A number of people were asking me how I did it, so I thought I'd create a short tutorial. You can find it in the Renderosity tutorial section.