Hello everyone. This is my first image posted here and I hope it will find eyes to please and minds to haunt (still, if you don't like it, feel free to express yourself).
I've been using blender since the early versions of 2.5x became available (sorry, I just couldn't work with the previous 2.4x and lower versions, I just couldn't deal with the navigation scheme and some shortcuts) and I absolutely love it. Now I sigh whenever I get a project and I can't use blender for whatever reason :)
Now about the picture - software used:
Blender for modeling, rendered mostly in cycles, except for the smoke, which was rendered in blender internal. Postwork in Photoshop.
(about the obviously repeating textures - I had to render on an old machine with little ram and a 8800gt with 512mb, so I had to use group instances and a limited number of textures, otherwise cuda would give me an "out of memory" error; and cpu rendering was really not an option in terms of time)
