This image was done in 2 weeks.
Since I don't work on a 64BIT station yet, I had to render many different passes (forground, background, vines, grass, the afterburn sky, occlusion and so on) and do the main finishing work in photoshop.
some screenshots -
http://zivcg.com/temp/l_screen1.jpg
http://zivcg.com/temp/l_screen2.jpg