One of my favorite illos, loremipsum's mmmm...face.

Modeled in 3ds Max, rendered with Mental ray. Textures and post work in Photoshop CS3.

Clay render without the ground displacement map for those interested.

original

tribute to Tygerson , thank you for the use of the beautiful elven-memories

Thank you, Delpht, for allowing me to recreate your lovely original illustration
I added the "Flea" sign on the teeny pet house after reading your response in the comments ;)
sources

http://www.Worth1000.com/entries/600323/handcastle original

many thanks to MadMonkey2 for using this illo death-machine

I used sculptris for some parts of the robot and brought the screenshots together in PS, i hope you like it :-)

This image comes from Delpht's Cogum, found here.
Most sources came from Stock Exchange - you can see them here.

Thanks to Delpht for all his helpful suggestions.

Thanks to BonnySaintAndrew for the use of his illustration as my inspiration.

Thanks to www.sxc.hu for the great sources.

many thanks to Loremipsum for the use of the-minion-and-the-muse

used sources

An interpretation of Gryphon by bajazet.

Many thanks to bajazet for allowing me to use his fantastic original image as inspiration.