yep, the T. rex is small, about half the size of a full-grown rex, his head itself is about 3-3.5 feet long, he's a total length of about 26 feet, I wanted to use an impressive full-sized animal, but he just wouldn't fit in the hall like that. anyway, I did put some grain, but I'm not seeing it now either, so I'll have to work on that, and in the final I'm going to be using fields, so he'll blend in better. my only problem here is that I really like the look of the raytraced shadows, but motion blur doesn't like it, so I don't know what I'm going to do. thanks again for all of your replies