**** Ahhhh-----so you created the Shards in MoI!. GREAT!
Well since Moi I just can't use anything else, even for simple tasks :P (moreover it's the only software I still can use smoothly when
all my 4 cpu cores are rendering Oo)
I agree, Brian about the replicator in Carrara - that's a wonderful tool for creating chaos in your scenes - I was just reading Bill Fleming's "Advanced Photorealism Toolkit" the other day - Photo Modeling in fact. (A technique similar to those programs that let you take a picture and draw primitive shapes to match the objects in the photo and then projection map the photo onto the objects for better 3D realism in your still shot...)