This is a challenge that Alex Lindsay at DV Garage gave me. I thought I'd pass it on to you. It's more challenging than it might seem at first. Create a single object. No background, no set, no nothing. Just a single object. Use modeling and texturing to make it photorealistic. Sounds easy doesn't it. But it's far harder than it appears. I've been working on mine for about a month now, and I picked a ridiculously simple object.

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