Hard surface presentation in Maya

Popolo

Hello technical talk, first time posting here

Always had trouble with presenting my hard-surface high-poly work, every setup or scene I try always look pretty bad. Tried some tutorials but never got them to work, probably because of my own lack of knowledge.

Thats why I'm trying to reach out to the great people on polycount and asking if you have some good tutorial, for Autodesk maya, or a basic scene that can help me in presenting my high-poly renders.

Any help will be appreciated.

passerby

so whats wrong with a 3 point lighting setup, and maybe a nice blinn material in a MR render?

Ace-Angel

A simple grey Lambert diffuse, with a Blinn (for metal) or Phong (for organic) render with a 3PL is all you need really. There is nothing magical, maybe post some example pictures on what you rendered vs. what you wish it would look like?

Popolo

This is example of one of my renderings: http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5039/adamop.jpg

And these two are exemples of what I would like to render: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72221

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17188/fatman_final3_big.jpg