It was a poster for the Charleston Food and Wine Festival last year. All done in Carrara except for the Glass/liquid, the Palm Tree and background sky. The Glass was done in Hexagon so I could take advantage of the bending tools which yield better results than Carrara for a compound distortion like this. The tree was exported from Vue 6i since it was a match for the kind that they apparently have around the Charleston area - why reienvent the wheel. ;) The background sky was rendered in Vue 6i with a spherical camera and then imported into Carrara. Carrara has a very, very good sky atmosphere gereator. Vue has a great atmosphere generator. It was simply faster for me to create what I need with Vue. In my business, deadline is king - always. I'm basically an art mercenary and will use what ever it takes to get the job done on time. Textures were all created in Carrara.