Hairy Tea Pot? Why not?

Having learned 3Ds Max way back in high school, i have always kept its uses lurking in the back of my head. Unfortunately my current university tends to skimp out on much of this expensive but great software. Instead i have been taught an array of cheaper, yet quite decent software alternatives, mainly Rhinoceros for the 3d aspect. Now having a pretty good grasp on Rhino, i find myself constantly getting bogged down and frustrated at the features that never seem to work. As a result of this frustration i have decided to slowly start learning how to use 3DS Max again, on my own albeit, but the benefits are so great i cant afford to miss out on learning an industry standard in software.

With this in mind i thought i would post a recent experiment, where i was playing around with the atmosphere settings with the Maxwell plug in, trying to create a realistic scene. My curiosity running wild, i couldn’t resist playing with the fur command, just one of the million that makes 3ds max amazing! within minutes i was creating spectacular scenes, with nothing more than a few primitive shapes and some hair!? who would have thought!? whats next ? who knows, but if its anything like the hair command I’m ready for more fun!

These two scenes were modeled in 3ds max, and output to maxwell render, which i think adds a world of difference to the quality of the render, not to mention the time to render unfortunately.

Thanks for looking!
X.Pafiolis