Two canard-type planes soar away from Etléa.

Modelled, textured, rigged and rendered in Maya 5 Complete.
Composited in Adobe Photoshop CS.

This frame is actually part of a 50 second animation.

For this gallery, I re-rendered the image with a 1280x768 resolution plus raytracing.

The animation resolution was only 720x408 and I used no raytracing - I am very impatient and the maximum render time I can accept is around 3 minutes per frame.

This image took about 15 minutes render time on my olden (mid-2001) Athlon 1.2 GHz.