In the mid 90's, Dr. Karl Sims published several pieces of research on his use of a powerful Connection Machine at Thinking Machines Corporation to produce life-like virtual creatures in a 3D physics simulation using an evolutionary process of random variation and selection. The videos accompanying his work left a lasting impact on those in the fields of AI and Artificial Life as well as on members of the general public. This presentation will look at a recent project inspired by the work of Sims called 3DVCE or 3D Virtual Creature Evolution. Autonomous virtual creatures are evolved to maximize a number of different performance measures in a number of different environments. The underlying hybrid Genetic Algorithm / Genetic Programming representation will be briefly described, as will a number of commonly evolved "themes" seen within the sample of evolved creatures produced thus far.