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# 66 01-12-2010 , 02:15 PM
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Location: London
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i think the problem is that most people just hit render using the default lights and have a black background (some times have a grey plane as a ground)

there are two things i think would make bog standard renders better
either creating a plane and applying a bend deformer, curve the plane on one side and use that. I forget the name of it, but its simulates something studio photographers use.
or...
create the ground plane that most people do, when you render you have a grey plane and a black background which looks stupid and crap. but if you select the environment tab in the camera and use the colour picker to change the background to the same colour as the grey plane in the render. they should match exactly and it will look like an endless grey but you can have ground shadows.

my renders on the first page are setup with the first method.