Product pre-vis is what switched me from a hobby artist to semi-pro, I'd been using various apps, but then I worked for 4 years in a fast prototyping team that did everything from concept, to prototype production runs. Two of us ended up using max for the early visuals based on our design docs. Once I had a grounding in Max, a friend who's a site engineer introduced me to an architect and I got lucky doing some odds and ends for him. I've moved up the food chain from the prototyping team to manage some software engineering and now have no excuse to buy new versions of Max and rather then buy from my own pocket I ended up using Blender.....

At some point I'll find enough hobby time to put as much effort into something to post here as I would on professional level, but I get too impatient when doing things that are for me.....

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.