I have Maya 5.0 and I have a million questions since I am a real newb on 3d rendering. But I will search the forums for those.

I do however have a question on hardware. Heres mine:

1.4 AMD...

I know you stated that your goal was not to make this picture real world realistic, but if I were to make this that way i would not have put those shadows in. ( not even in front of the statue).
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