Gear:

This gear was made using a tutorial I found on the web. My goal was to experiment with image-based lighting and various techniques for rendering in mental ray. The gear itself took far less time to make than it did to render.

Animated Gear: (Embedded Video - 0:03)

My first animated movie! This is the same gear only rendered using Maya Software. The animation process was fairly simple because the object moves and rotates very easily and not many changes were needed with the lighting.