This image is from a Westwood Studios Game, Dune Emperor. It was a background matte painting and was made with Lightwave and Bryce - mostly Bryce. I've since taken the models I built and have been creating a new scene or two experimenting with composition and color. I still use Bryce for some things because I can create highly complex objects very quickly and allows for a slightly painterly look and feel - something I've tried in Lightwave and Vue 5 Infinite with mixed results. This is great for quick prototyping of scenes, color schemes and compositional sketches. I like to work fast and this technique (the complex models took about 20 minutes to build using greyscale images I churned out in Illustrator and Photoshop) mixed with some tweaking on lighting, color, textures and scene compostion took about 4 hours to make. (give or take a few hours to render some hi-resolution tests).