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I just had to do something with Ray's (Sivraj) Dolls image as a texture to put inside the window. This is more a study in realism using VUE9 than anything, although it took some post process editing to tweak the highlights and shadows to get to this stage. I also borrowed Ray's Study in Colour and texture for an additional texture to add a little urbanisation. The door, which appears in a lot of my CGI work, got a make over to make the arch round instead of angular. The windows were free 3DS Max models imported into Vue, repainted and distressed. The paint effect is a cracked stone bump map miniaturised and enhanced a little, although perhaps too much. The wall brickwork is my own texture. The figures are stock images placed on planes inside the Vue scene to get the lighting correct.

My personal favourite touches are the reflections of the building opposite in the windows (one of my venetian mansion models), the slime on the brickwork and the spiders webs in the corners of the glass. The question is, does it work? Comments and critiques welcome, indeed, encouraged on this one.