I've been haunting the Galleries at Desktop Starships for a while now, and I've always been interested in how such great images are made.   I finally followed a link here and was amazed at what I saw!!  HAD to sign up here.

Hopefully, when I can finally afford to update the six year old Compe next year, I can get to start learning how to do 2D & 3D art as I've wanted to do for quite some time.  Meanwhile, this looks like a good place to do a little learning before then.