looking good! for the subject matter it just seems too saturated. the greens, reds, tans, are all SO warm. The scene would probably benefit from a global cooling of those colors.
You have to create a procedure to have a single command execute multiple other commands. for example: global proc testing(){print "words \n"; print "more words";} print (`testing`);
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing! We really should set up a global Tutorial collection thread. I've seen a few kicking around for specific stuff, not nothing broad.
There's another one of these that is global, although it's not as nicely maintained, I'll see if I can find it. edit: bah, it was on the frappr beta and it appears to be gone now. Too bad, it had hundreds of companies on it.
Eric the radiousity just means they use some form of bounce lighting to achieve a global illumination effect. Light rays can bounce around a set number of times before they die.
Would b easier to crit if you didn't use global illumination and showed us wireframes. GI is really good at hiding flaws which is why it's often used for promotional stuff.