This image started out, like a lot of my recent projects, as an experiment.
I wanted to create a feeling of loneliness and abandon.  Imagine this poor
guy going back to see the water damage done to his house after the rain had
stopped, and he then notices that his neighbor's house is in worse shape
than his.  I also have always wanted to light a near-night scene, and get it
to look dark, yet keep the details and the mood.  LW 5.5 was used, and I did
the texture maps in PhotoShop, creating a different texture for each side of
each model.  Morphs were used sometimes so that the dirt and weathering
textures would follow the broken models.
Some more renders of this scene can be seen at :
www.megatoon.ca/~keri/Gallery.html

Keridan Elliott
Megatoon Studios