The purpose of this image was to test various texturing, lighting, and rendering ideas. This will be the first of a number of rendered images that I will create to test new skills. All objects in the scene were built by me. The little glass bear was built as part of a Maya 8: Foundations tutorial. Primarily I just wanted to do some basic stuff with this image. In particular I wanted to work with global illumination and final gathering as well as material creation. Modified blinn and lambert materials as well as a few mia_materials were used for shaders. The wine glass uses a dielectric shader. A spotlight primarily lights the scene. A very low power ambient light and point light are also utilized. The chrome spheres reflect not only the table items but also the room beyond the table.