Cool -- seems like we all do similar things.

Doing a test render right now, and its coming out very good for my work I've been doing since last night on the render.  Still have to tweak some lighting to match the background.

For my piece I'm doing right now, thinking a lot is being used in the way of lights, so might go with my alternate lighting means, just put some red/blue lights coming from behind on the figures in the foreground.

I have the A/C blaring, and also the pedestal fan helping to blow it towards my PC's.  Don't need anything to happen to them before the new one gets here.....

 

Poser Pro 2012/3DS Max 2013/Adobe Photoshop Elements 10/Zbrush/

PC: HP Z820 Workstation, 3.30 ghz 8 core Intel Processor, 2gig nvidia Quadro, 16 gig of Ram and 2TB Hard Drive.