Hi RAMWolff, Your Angel is wonderful, its nice to see some folks taking interest in this forum.

This might give you some ideas, attached is an example of how I combine programs. I used Poser, xara and photopaint to render the model, I think it illustrates effective rendering of hair and cloth.
I will explain step by step the techniques if your interested, but I would have to start from scratch.

Hello Cheryl, Glad you like the dragon, scales? yes I would do them with a vector grouping, I have experimented with various ways to do them, one way I find effective is to draw a crisscrossing pattern of lines that fit the shape, add some color and smudge each one slightly, this kinda gives the illusion of scales, Then I can spend a great deal of time perfecting them. If you look closely at the second dragons foot you might see some this. I could have carried it through out the dragon but I got bored and never finished it.

This thread is getting long, time to be continued with a new thread

[This message was edited by Mike Bailey on March 03, 2002 at 07:48.]