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I prefer the first one. I like the light reflecting off the water dropplets more, and i think the darker contrast makes it look "too perfect" also I like the environment map on the faucet better

Yeah, They were originally meant to be kindof lazy. Here is the picture that I got the idea from (I loved the fly, so i copied it exactly) But I wanted to make the picture original too

Ok here it is starting to look a little closer to what I had originally pictured.. I inverted the bump map on the frogs skin, and you were right, that helped alot. also I rendered it with ART and added a little reflection in the water, and that helped a lot too...

so I got this image in my head the other day and thought it was funny. I decided to try to model it out. Im still not happy with the texture of the skin, nor the lily pads, but i still have a lot of playing around to do.. anyways tell me what you think, and suggestions / constructive criticism is always welcome

Its really weird starting a new program after learning one. I learned everything on bryce (a graphic design class in highschool) and then started playing with anim8or... ive tried blender, and maya, and both of them overwhelm me every time, and i always just go back to either bryce or anim8or. though, i really need to push through and learn maya if i ever want to get really serious with it I guess.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I would love to learn to use the ray tracer, But Im not familiar with any of the terminology of 3d modeling, and so didnt understand really the documentation about it, and the attributes.. is there a simple way to explain how to use these effects, or is it something I just need to read a lot about, and play with.. Also, Im not sure If I did the materials in the "proper" way for them to react correctly with the lighting (such as, when I render with different lighting, The walls in the back usually are very dark, while the bowl looks almost like its glowing, so I just added more lights in front of the background), I pretty much just played with the values until it looked right in the render.