Lighting & Rendering
Realistic lighting and rendering is one of my favorite things to experiment with. The idea of making fantastical scences look real is the reason why I pursued 3D in the first place.
Here is a couple of scenes I rendered using VRay 2.0 and 3dsMax 2012.

Bar Scene. VRay 2.0 and 3DsMax 2012.

Beep Boop Robot Scene. VRay 2.0 and 3DsMax 2012.