Behold, The Re-birth of My
Warhammer 40,000 Carrara 3D Gallery!
I have a huge collection of WH40K 3D images from many years back, but almost all of them were done in Ray Dream Studio, the precursor of Carrara. I was quite happy with the modelling work, but never satisfied with the shading. Ray Dream Studio, in my opinion, never did have realistic highlighting for complex metallic texture-maps (or at least I wasn't able to get them to look real - that was most likely the real reason...)
Carrara, now owned by Daz3D, does do a fantastic job of rendering realistic metallic highlights, allowing for very realistic metal objects, such as the UltraMarine's power-armor seen to the left here. That being the case, I am going to re-render all of my Warhammer 40,000 models with this new texturing technique, so check back soon for my Space Marine Terminators, Chaos Space Marines, Dreadnoughts, and more!