on the topic of game art what about futuristic (along the lines of the unreal tournament series), Roman, or a western theme

On another note, I'm not sure if you know or can even create a vid/tutorial on it but I've looked EVERYWHERE and can't find any tutorials on properly setting up mental ray light nodes in maya. I see them in hypershade taunting me but have no idea how to get em going.

If anyone knows for that matter please let me know