ok, what took so ling
firstly was gettingthe Omega into the right position, THAT took about an 30mins, just setting it up, doing test renders and what have u
then the Lighting THAT took about 1 1/2 hrs, there are 3 spotlights providing the lights, and i wanted to get that nice highlight u see on the nearest Omega's Rotating section
then i did the Nebula in Photoshop, did a test render, spent anotehr hr tweaking bits before i was happy with it
then spent about an hr rendering the *****
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"Wow, how'd you get it to work?"
"I ran a Physical Impulse Mechanical Stress Routine"
"Huh?"
"I kicked it."
"Ahh."