When I get time I can do photoreal renders, character modeling, rigging animation -- whatever. I dont get much time to play myself theesdays -- I am almost too busy to do supervise CG effects any more either. However, every now and then I get a chance to play... we needed an image of the Leather bound books to sell them. The problem was we needed it before we have the actual books. So, from memory alone, I made up the leather textures and created the now infamour Ballistic LE renders -- most of which have been my own work to date.
Textures and maps all made in Painter. Renders in 3ds Max (standard renderer) and image processing in Photoshop.
I keep meaning to update the mac file to use mental ray -- but it's photoreal for the web where we use the images so there it's much incentive to play with the scene.