During the past five years, I've begun working with 3d graphics, to a large extent with Caligari's trueSpace and Maxon's C4DXL7.
As significant adjuncts to trueSpace, I commend (among many others) products developed by: www.cebas.com www.sisyphus.com
I highly recommend the web site of George Proctor, creator of some excellent imagery inspired by the golden age of science fiction and space exploration, and a gentleman who has been of immeasurable assistance in my graphics education.	And after viewing George's work, follow the link from his pages to the site maintained by our friends in the who create and showcase on the WP site some quite remarkable work.
There are quite a number of galleries of computer imagery on the web (in fact, it's hard to imagine what CGI was before the web made exchanges of ideas and work possible) and I've included links to a few maintained by friends:
Jose Perez binkydognose www.realshades.com Mateen Greenway Gene Gunderson   Don Showalter  Jörg Gerlach   Tom Grimes   OpieJuan Animation Studios www.pixeldiva.com