This is a picture I did to see how close blender could get to Softimage. I completely copied Ben Procters excellent picture "The Labyrinth" HE GETS ALL CREDIT FOR COMPOSITION ETC. I merely did this to see if I could come close to Softimage using blender. I used the textures that Ben supplied here.
OK, here is Ben Procter's picture he did with Softimage:
And here is the one I did using blender:
You can see I made some mapping mistakes. Also, I don't think I have the right camera lense, but I think blender did a pretty good job! It took me about 5 hours.
Here is another setting I just did using the unified renderer in 2.11:
Here is a screen shot to show you the set up:
Here is a picture of my desk. This was done with blender (with a little help from Paintshop Pro)
This is the blender logo done with GI radiosity