Antoine Desjardisn - http://www.coroflot.com/AntoineD
Here's a project that I started a while back. I wanted to mimic a few views of this existing house in Zachary. I love the concept and atmosphere that Stephen Atkinson has created for this small house... also, it was a great way to test how many billions of polys I could scatter in a scene (everything is modeled).
I optimized the scene pretty easily by using falloffs for indirect lighting, scattering, and sampling. The 2000 px wide image rendered in less than 1hr.
Software: 3DS Max | Multiscatter | Mental Ray