Thanks BWR

Thanks Ichappell

Thumbs up, I knew this was a winner. Nice score BTW.

Thank you George, there's a lot of time in this one. After the modeling it took 30 minutes to render the scene at this resolution, and that's on a machine running at 5GHZ with a high end graphics card.

(to the author) Oooh an overclocker!! I'm at 4.8 with a 7700K on air. Haven't tried 5GHZ. Just plopped it at 4.8, fired it up and it's been rock solid ever since. Only got 24GB and need more soooo bad but it's so damned expensive. I moaned when I had to spend $98 for 16GB, now it's like double that.

(hi George too)

Thanks skyangel.

No the models depicted here are not standard with CC2018. I made each and every one of them. My SBS shows the general way they were created. If i were to go into a detailed step by step, i might as well have written a tutorial. No external sources involved. I have been a member here LONG enough to know the rules. Please, if there is anything I can do to alleviate any doubt let me know.

@moderator, do you still doubt the validity of my modeling?

Thank you for noticing the lie of the shadows still26. That was an integral part of my thought process.

Thanks Ms.Z, grats to you too.

Come on man, you can render some 3D too. Especially on the rig you described.
Thanks for the congrats. Give it a shot.

The background in the hourglass is a result of transparency and reflexion. This is a weird story anyhow, right?

Thanks a lot Lloyd. I quickly understand but I need long explanations . I thought the background was similar enough but you're right it was not. I have done as you said and it is muuuuch better now
I don't have a link to the same images, the clock gears are rather similar but not the same.

Mahalo my brah

Done

It's funny, just today at work I was thinking "I need to make the bat stand out more, and lighten him up", no kidding. Done and done...

Thanks, yes the action was used on the lower portion of the bat to make it look like it was a rough time down there, lol