I arranged this Photoshop Challenge on CSF back in 2006, so I guess it’s about time i get it uploaded to the page: Everybody had the same spaceship setup on a blue screen, and everybody did a great job!
Check out how I made the setup and what people made of it (in Miscellaneous>scenes).

Are any of you readers interested in having another go?
I consider creating a sequence of three setups with dogfighting among large container carriers: If you keep the style consistent (but vary the backgrounds), they could be linked into a comic-strip-type action sequence.

I have about 30 mocs from 2003-2004 awaiting upload, but haven’t really been able to come up with an idea on how to manage this huge task: Rendering with LDPAO/POV-Ray takes several hours per moc, and I’m not even going to consider rebuilding the moc and photographing it in real life. Using LDView turns out to be very fast (under an hour), and I’m quite satisfied with the result.

The primary reason it’s so much faster is that the program automatically save the snapshots with a name similar to the previous one (unlike digital photos). You can also set a fixed image size, and with the program’s automatic cropping, you almost doesn’t need photoshop…
Unfortunately the automatic cropping eats the outermost edgelines, so you still have to run all the photos through the usual crop & resize.

With most of my newer moc-presentations, I’m using 400×300 images in the text and linking to larger 800×600 versions. And frankly, I don’t think that anybody is actually clicking them anyways, so in the future, I think I’ll just cut out the doubles.