Spectacular

CGtalk.com is a community of about 200,000 people interested in digital art, from newbies to acadamy award winners and everything inbetween. It's an amazing resource for learning any aspect of cg art.

They have a contest going on right now on the theme 'Spectacular'

Here is a work in progress by James Kaufeldt"
















It's amazing to see the concept sketches, references, modeling tests, textures, and lighting set-ups that go into making an 3D render from scratch like that.

Those are from this entry by James Kaufeldt