We're learning Maya in school! It's kind of weird next to 3dsmax, but manageable.

Wires: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m.....plyo2_1280.png face count is at 18K, didn't optimize anything, I'm a little too clumsy with Maya for that yet. But I'm happy I managed my light setup almost without cheating by slapping ambient on the materials. Could be fun to work more on too, but I'm very happy with it - never worked with lights before either, but since viewports can sooort of pre-render it these days it's not too difficult to do.