RENDERTUBES.....I love to combine 2d work and 3d work. Before the days of 3d instancing and Vue's ecosystem technology, I employed a technique for achieving vast numbers of objects in a scene without the polycount or rendertimes. Rendering in 3d, making images sprays from those renders and then compositing them back into a render is the basic workflow. This tutorial is in three parts and each one is lengthy and detailed as I made it with the very beginner in mind. So each step and mouseclick has been noted.