Have I given up?

NO WAY! I've been learning A LOT about Blender and even some of it's external rendering engines. The results have been AWESOME! Some of the images that come out of LuxRender are fantastic! They just take quite a while on my setup... :P Well... I do have some "almost finished" and "not so finished" renders to share. I've also been fooling around with new modeling techniques like using curves and "spinning". I'll post up what I have but remember these are ... doodles, in a sense.


This is the Jetpack that I started for the Battleoid. Looks pretty awesome here :D


This was my tutorial render, it was the final image I came up with following instructions from another site.


This is Suzanne (Blender's complex primitive for lighting / rendering checks) with a Diamond rendering setting.


Here we have just a simple glass ball.


Last but not least, The martini glass I learned to "spin" from a curve. This one wasn't rendered with LuxRender, this was done with Blender's own internal engine.