The main image is from a self promotional piece that our company is working on. We saw a very curious looking home made rocket car parked outside one day and decided to create a fake spot with it. The main still is a finished a beauty shot of the car we made for fun, and won't be worked on more. the lower stills show some ongoing work we are doing with the car while creating a spec commercial with it, which will (hopefully) be done and shown later this year.
It should be noted that the above still was rendered in fprime, not Lightwave, while the lower stills are renderd in Lightwave. We are attempting to complete everything without radiosity because we can't hog all our computers to render this, so we've just used area lights and spotlights so far.
The textures are hand painted, the modeling is sub-patch modeling. The mountains are textured with Lightwave surface gradients.
cc and glow was done in After Effects.
thanks for looking.