i'm a graphic designer. Of course simplicity is best, but that's not what i'm going for here. my message is that the color orange can be used in more places than one normally assumes, thus breaking...

i made this nice model of a gatlin gun for my maya class, then got artsy on it and turned it into this. enjoy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9AnjdTntc

this was for class. we had to pick and color and depict a means of advertising it (graphic design class)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/mayh3m/peelPuzzle.jpg
and bonus stop motion...

i turned in the one w/ no depth of focus because of the same reason you mentioned. they're just a bunch of identical vases and i used color (red, obviously) and light to make one appear superior to...

different focus

project for class. teacher asked "what is color, what is light?" and the medium was up to the student.

playing with light

here's a still from a 10 second animation for my class last semester. this is really the first actual scene i've created. it's nurbs and poly's, hdri dome lighting and has a water particle system...