A logo I made for my high school batch... for our reunion (1997-2007; but we'll be doing it this year 2008 'cos no one made it happen last year.)

The theme was along the lines of "wild". The first wild thing that came to mind was tentacles... Actually the tentacles concept was inspired by an artwork by a deviantART member. I'm gonna look for him here.

It was supposed to be an amalgam of fire and tentacles -- fire that looks like tentacles and vice versa -- but, I didn't have time to make it better, and making the tentacles bit was just way easier; besides my batchmates bugging me to finish this, I have four or more projects to finish... so here it is. Something I'm not satisfied about.
I wasn't quite sure what color I should use for the tentacles: orange or black? Orange is our batch color. Sort of. And black tentacles just seem like they came from the underworld, so I was worried that not everyone could dig it. But I went for it anyway...

And, oh, the monkey face. The monkey here's unisexual -- either male or female. We (or most of us) were born during the year of the monkey (sometime mostly in 1980). I wanted to project in that face the qualities of the monkey as described in the Chinese calendar: that monkeys are intelligent, creative, adaptable and wild (well, the tentacles take care of that "wild" part).
They said.
I agree heeheeh

-purely 3DS Max 9
-tentacles made by lofting.
-only about 5 main variations of tentacles; then the others were just duplicated, triplicated,... +applied several modifiers: bend, tesselate, taper,... besides the "built-in" modifiers in the loft objects.
-mentalRay rendered.
-1350x2400 original size; downloadable.

Took me two whole days to finish this. Excluding the conceptualization. Just finished it this early morning!
Oh, my... gotta rest!

I'm a 3DSMax newbie... still got tons of stuff to learn whew!

Comments welcome! Thanks