I'm not to sure how to put it in the WIP section, if the mods want to do it, thats cool.

I had a read through the lighting parts of the help files, and it is starting to make a bit more sense now,...

So by modeling an environment to reflect do you mean, say a polygon plane with a picture of a landscape on it, or something more advanced.
Final Gather was used here with accuracy set to 500, no...

I had another crack at 3 point lighting and this is what I came up with.

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/midduke123/1.jpg

I also tried the textured geo thingo. You can faintly see a...

wow, awesome very informative. I still don't quite know what you mean by light card, is this a spotlight with a card attached to it or something on its own. Light linking, sounds complicated hehe,...

Yeh since I am very new to all this, I am having a hard time wrapping my head around light, lol. What do you mean when you say textured geo, and by light carsd do you mean, say a spotlight with a...

No texture mapping just the standard shaders that come with mental ray, we weren't aloud to use anything else for the assignment.

Yes the flash was quite a bit of trouble, it actually has beveled...

Hey all,
I posted this over at cgtalk forums but thought I should post here as well, so I can get all the constructive criticism possible, as it is the first model I have ever done. It was rendered...

hey,
my only crit, would be the front kidneys (grills). On a 5er they are much more round than you have yours. You have a square casing with round grills inside. Try and make the whole thing round....