Sorry, man! You slipped over to my second page of responses, so I never got a chance to respond to this!

You're probably right about the darkness, and that's something that I'm sadly fighting to skirt the line of a lot... I've been doing a lot of light experimentation, trying to set moods with lighting and shadow, and in this case, I actually had it fairly good on my monitor. What happens is that my usual post-work finishes tend to darken the picture slightly, and in this case, that made a lot of difference. Beforehand, the cave wall and pillar behind the girl on the left, and even the throne, was much more visible. But it's all a learning process. ^_^

Depth Blur... what can I say about it but "stupid, but beautiful, piece of &$*#^!!" In this case, the blur was much more subtle around the models, because I did almost all of it in postwork and wanted to have the expressions at least be visible. But I want to keep attempting to expand my horizons , so I'll keep trying fun stuff like that... and probably hating my computer with every moment.

The big thing is, I'm really glad you liked what I put together... hope I can keep ya watching!

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*** Creator of the Bob the Retarded Basilisk Fan Club ***

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Don't worry about me watching, I'm even watching you 6000 km away from home, with a 56k connection

Holy crap, I was totally wrong with the picture being too dark... it was actually the screen of the laptop I had during my holidays that was too dark... Now that I'm back on my good old screen, I see that the laptop screen ruined my artworks, making them way too bright...