Alistair: the avatar is also done in cinema, and is abstract work, no specific recognisable thing on it.
Wendy: One million times sorry!!!! These things cannot be done with the Cinema version you get with the magazine, and also not with the upgrade to 6.3. See, to make this kind of things, you need a suite of shaders (like texturing plugins) called "Smells Like Almonds", and that wasn't included in version 6. It had to be bought separately, and one does need C4D 6.3, the upgrade, for it. Yet: Maxon doesn't sell it anymore, so you would have to find someone who has an original and who wants to sell it. Selling is allowed because it does not make part of the upgrade to vs.7 or 8. Then, with the original serial of SLA and your personal serial for C4D6.3, Maxon can generate a working serial for SLA. See, this way owners of SLA2.1 can sell only once, and you get a fully legal copy of it.
What you do get with vs.6 is a good basic 3D modelling tool and the option to import PS docs to put textures on it. IMO it is really worth the price of the magazine, but don't expect to get the power of Cinema8: it was after vs 6 that Maxon started to have that "hit with a bullet". Compare Cinema6 with PS 4.
My idea. And, once again: it was sheer coincidence, I did not want to tempt anyone with these works into buying tha mag! [saywhat]
I get ya Erik! 
B7
but I'll leave that thought alone! 
