Artist's Comments: This is an animation test. The original was rendered as TIFF frames at 1280 x 720. The Render settings are RT fine with anti-alias on, over sampling set to 16, and Octree set to 12. Strata 5.5. Render times were about 1.5 min per frame on my Quad 2.5GHz PPC. I would have liked to add blur, but the render times become way too high. A different kind of blur algorithm that does not use complete frame re-renders, multiple times would be a god send...

I think this shows Strata' crying need for some decent procedural cloud and particle shaders along with ways to manipulate the shapes they take. I did this with Hubble photos.