My favorite workflow was to make a totally l33t render with 3dsmax, put it in Photoshop to draw UI buttons, and then use Imageready to slice it and autogenerate the html slices and maps. Instant fancy website that made me a cool kid as far as I was concerned
If you were using 3DS for web design you were legit l33t :)
I pulled an all-nighter to hand in a college homework to demonstrate gradient descent using Maya once. Sadly, the teacher was not impressed. Good times.
