This is the year of Poser. Poser 1 characters were ugly, naked, bald, with no real hands, faces or genitalia, and they took forever to parse, but they were a big improvement on dummies and makeshift solutions. 1996 was also the year of POV-Ray 3, hence the pictures with
"crackle", media, buildings and grass (the latter two made possible with loops). I also started doing art exhibitions and a couple of the images in this page were shown in the Digipainters show in Roma the following year.
