I very much like this image!

For the ant hill, you might want to work on the texture,
I guess thats the main reason why it doesn't look right.
Using a good pigment-normal combo can create the
illusion of a very granulated hill, since it wouldn't be too
obvious in this angle that its not really granular.

The smoke trails are a must for this image, and perhaps
even some effect with which the focussed light can be seen,
e.g. using media (not with photons, just some cylindrical-
spherical-combo of emission, to get that ray-effect).

All in all, a very neat idea, I think its really good, though perhaps
arealights wouldn't harm the grass' shadows.
Maybe attaching the handles to the lenses? Though that might
destroy the UFO-look, it could be worth a try for easy recognition...

Regards,
Tim

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> I'm trying to finalize this image and I'm not sure what/where to deal
with.
> The image is basically a set of lenses (that have a ufo look to them)
> heading towards an ant in the bottom of the image.  The ant seems to be
> studying this new threat.   I intend to add a few smoke trails (like
> cigarette smoke) where some of the lenses are focused on the grass to make
> the threat more apparent.  The small mud/sand mound that the ant is
perched
> on looks too much like a "cow patty" but I'm not sure how tomake it more
> granular, other than placing a lot of spheres all over it and I'm worried
> the rendering time will skyrocket.  I'm using photons but no radiosity.
> With no radiosity the image takes about 1.5 hours.  With radiosity it can
> only complete a few lines per day.
>
> Any suggestions/comments about the image?
>
> (No it's not a political statement)
>
> Patrick Dugan
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