These images below were designed in 3D Studio Max using tutorials which involved modelling, using a daylight system, and also Mental Ray rendering.
The day and night time scenes were by far the most exciting as they came together slowly but in the end they came together and you could really see where your time on the project went.
The tutorial used to create this chair to the left was the first one we did. The main problem with designing this was using real world sizes so that the lighting was not completely out.
The image to the left was more of a lighting tutorial but still involved some modelling, texturing, and the finishing touches were done in Photoshop CS4, including the outside image.