Always glad to help out anyone interested in 3D art. Was there anything specific you wanted to know? There are a ton of tutorials out there covering almost everything, but I know its always nice to talk semi-directly with somebody who is actually using it or has use it in their artwork.

I was actually more interested in the computer science aspect of the design, but any bit of advice would be welcom. Are you using linear algebra for coordinates in designing a 3D frame?

hehe, no. Actually the camera in Maya works more like a real photo or film camera. You set the resolution, focus distance and aspect ratio in much the same way. I simply pose the character how I want and then eyeball a camera angle I think looks good. Not that you couldn't set everything up mathematically, I'm sure the artists I've seen who do a lot of fractal art do that.
Everything is set up on a grid so there are coordinates to go by and you need to keep the scale of the scene in mind when it calculates things like lights and reflections, but the nice thing if you aren't very math inclined (like me) is all you have to do is render the scene, adjust a slider here and there and render again. Lot of trial and error, but you can see the results.

But like I said you could set everything up by code if that is how you think. When I was in school we had one class that was all about creating a model and animating it strictly from code. That's one of the great things about a lot of 3D packages: there are a dozen different ways to complete one task and the one you end up using usually depends on your own personal preference.

Now as per my artwork, I usually just try and make everything the size of my desktop (1920x1200) just so I can use it as wallpaper. :)

Oooh, haha I kinda assumed you'd be doing a lot of it from coding. This revelation of a lot of setting through trial and error is very intriguing.