Hi everyone, just wanted to share this image I came up with. The 
creature was modeled with LightWave and rendered in two passes with POV.

The first pass was rendered in 31 minutes, 54 seconds using POV-Sub (the 
subdivision surface patch). This allowed me to keep the initial mesh 
object very small, thus saving hard-disk space (parsing might have even 
been faster, too).

The second pass was rendered 11 minutes, 7 seconds with the official 
version of POV. This added the glare effect you see coming off the 
creature's head.

My initial attempt at rendering this in LightWave was a little 
disappointing, because there is no good-looking SSS shader for the 
version I use.

Comments always welcome....

~Sam

P.S. The file for the glare effect is available upon request.

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