rendering tips
 

hey guys, even tho i have 1 year experience in 3d modelling, rendering/lighting always has been my weak point, so i was wondering if anyone has any tips/ online tutorial that could help me with rendering for example how to achieve something close to this: http://i42.tinypic.com/34gueyb.jpg

i recently started to watch penguins of Madagascar and i really got hooked to it, main reason is the quality of their rendering and lighting is so awesome i wish i could achieve anything close to this, but can't find any good tutorials on the net for lighting/rendering so if anyone could show me some good ones i would be glad, or any professional from simplymaya would be willing to make a tutorial for it i would be even more glad :D

There are a few free tutorials on lighting avaialble here, see the anouncement thered.

also im not sure if you know rendering passes but thats a good thing to look up also.

already looked at them, nothing i don't know already though and yes ozgalis i know how to render in passes too

little clarification, i know the basics of render passes, but i don't know it in details.........like playing with parameters to get good quality

no point rendering in layers if you cant composite them.