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Jumping in here. I have to add my compliments to you, John and the others regarding the stinger episode. >Just for my own feedback, what impressed you the most about it? Since I am stuggling with some of the same problems creating underwater shots for our student video I have a GREAT appreciation for what you have accomplished. If I am not mistaken the "stinger" episode was the first time you attempted to show both the bottom and surface underside in the same shot. Well done! And there was the shot of the "stinger" doing a loop where the "stinger's" lights reflected off the surface underside. Again nicely done! What this shows me is that even under the pressure of cranking out the shots on time you have been experimenting and stretching the envelope of what is possible. That's the creative and fun part after all. Right now I am attempting to make my virtual underwater environment a more lively "living" place. So I have been creating a variety of fish both individuals and whole schools (using particles in Imagine 2.9). In one shot I needed closup of a device (the deadly, now illegal, fishing device known as the "Z-9000" in our script) stuck in the bottom. So I created a bottom fish to scuttle across in front of it. Can you get all excited about creating a swimming flounder! Damn right you can! Keep up the great work! I am still planning to send you and John a tape. As soon as I have accumulated enough shots to make it interesting. We've finished the FX shots for the first scene "The Teaser" and we are working on scene #2 "The Call For Help", so it should not be too much longer. I'll include a copy of the script my student writers have come up with so you can see how it all fits together. BTW: I am sure you don't come it contact with the live cast members. But in case you do – Jonathan Brandis comes from the Danbury CT area. My female students would like him to know that he is a real home town hero to them.