I think this is fun to see early renders. Here are mine. Both are in my gallery here. I have some that are older and worse than this but  none are uploaded anywhere so this was easier.

2001 (click image for full size)

No sort of background and I'm sure that must be default lighting. I remember posing  Vicki in that banana peel was sooo hard!

2006 (click image for full size)

This was from a few months ago.