Ulead Cool 3D Production Studio is another great 3D program I highly recommend to buy.

What I like best about it is the 3D Fonts and the Textures you can put on objects, as you can see in my below picture.

For my Alice in Wonderland Tea Party picture I used a pink and purple checker texture on the teapot and fonts.  The fonts themselves, I used Oject Style the round bevel option. 

You can use all sorts of backgrounds: color, image, video, gradient etc. For my cherrys picture below, I used a neat pink blue swirl for my background.

Here's Ulead Cool 3D Production Studio Specs to give you some idea of what you need to run the program.

System Requirements
Intel® Pentium™ II compatible processors or above (Intel® Pentium™ III 800MHz recommended)
Microsoft® Windows® 98, 2000, Me and XP
64MB RAM (256MB RAM recommended)
128MB available hard disk space (250MB recommended)
DirectX® 8.1 driver or above
Display card with 4MB display memory (32MB recommended) which supports DirectX®7 or above
Hi Color or True Color display adapter and monitor
CD-ROM Drive
Windows compatible pointing device

To learn more about this awesome program check out the link below.

Link: Ulead Cool 3D Production Studio

Here's some more examples of pictures I did in Cool 3D

Grapes

Lady Bug

My Fuzzy Springs Picture I made with ZBrush

If you like 3D art like I do, then you have to check out this art program ZBrush, its so amazing.  I would have to say my favorite "material" on ZBrush is "Toy Plastic."  It's so fun, I like to use it on my Sweets.  And I can't believe the 3D realism it gives you without having to have a mega powerful computer.  I  highly recommend anyone to buy this program, its totally worth it.

Here's Pixologic ZBrush Overview

ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has revolutionized the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows. Built with in an elegant interface, ZBrush offers the world’s most advanced tools for today’s digital artists. With an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, ZBrush creates a user experience that feels incredibly natural while simultaneously inspiring the artist with in. With the ability to sculpt up to a billion polygons, ZBrush allows you to create limited only by your imagination.

Designed around a principle of circularity, the menus in ZBrush work together in a non-linear and mode-free method. This facilitates the interaction of 3D models, 2D images and 2.5D Pixols in new and unique ways.

ZBrush gives you all of the tools needed to quickly sketch out a 2D or 3D concept, then take that idea all the way to completion. You can create realistic renders directly in ZBrush with lighting and atmospheric effects, or with the many powerful export options you can easily prepare you model for 3D printing or use with in any other digital application.

Because ZBrush users are enabled by its powerful software processing, you can sculpt and paint with millions of polygons with out having to worry about purchasing expensive graphics cards. It is for this reason why ZBrush is used by everyone from art enthusiast to major film and games studios.

Leave technical hurdles and steep learning curves behind, as you sculpt and paint with familiar brushes and tools.

Check this link out below for more information about ZBrush

Link: ZBrush

Here's Zbrush Specs to give you some idea of what you need to run the program.

System Specs

ZBRUSH 3.1 - WINDOWS
Recommended: OS: Windows XP/Vista
CPU: Fast P4 or newer (or equivalent such as AMD) with optional multithreading or hyperthreading capabilities
RAM: 1024MB (2048MB for working with multi-million-poly meshes)
Monitor: 1280x1024 monitor resolution or higher (32 bits)

Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows 2000
CPU: PIII
RAM: 512MB (1024 MB recommended)
Monitor: 1024x768 monitor resolution (32 bits)

Froggy

Visit the Zbrush video tutorials, they are very helpful learning the tools.

Link: Video tutorials

This is a really neat feature of Zbrush, you can make a turntable of your model.

I made this spinning ball with it, pretty neat.

Link: ZBrush Turntables

See what you can all do with this program. 

Link: ZBrush Artist Gallery

I like to check out the forum when a question comes up, its very helpful when trying to find the answer from other users.

Link: ZBrush Forum

Palm Trees with Coconuts