@Autocon cool. http://www.nextgenhardsurface.com/showthread.php?41-Rendering-Maya-Rendering-Tutorial-Images is a pretty nice and straight forward Maya version.
Oh yes. I want this NOW!!!. While it was a joke for April fools apparantly they are going to actually see if they can get this made!! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html
not sure what happened http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=847449&postcount=41 that one looks LOOOADS better then the latest iteration. Not sure what happened.