This was about the best my comp could do at the time, and rendering time was a nightmare! I think this is VW 11 or 12. This is for Music Man, and utilizes nothing but VW textures, and no HDRI background. Now here is two when I first started out. The cantaleavered steps and the compound raked stage add a sense of precariousness to the action, and water is always an acceptable choice in Greek Tragedy and allowed for a wonderfull way to show an off-stage death, and Electra's re-birth when she bathes in her mother's blood, that runs freely down the waterfall, at the end of the production. On a side note, the design is clean and simple, and reflects a bleak existence where escape from Electra's reminders of past treachery is imposible.

When presenting(11x17), at a small distance, it appears natural and somewhat real.(4') Also, the beach sand mapped really nice to the NURBS(Interpolated) surface, and helped in pulling some detail out of the surface. The wall texture in this image, I think was around 10MB. The only VW texture is Lead 01 that I used on the stair units and a rusted metal for the Schedule 40 pipe, to me the Lead 01 looks more like rock, but it works for the design. Although I did create most of the textures and the floor in CS5 and then imported.

Here is a render using CS5 to add the three people, and the two statues, everything else is VW.

Things like pixplant but cheeper