Looking at the texture I wouldn´t say it´s that much different from the tutorial. Sure, I agree with the comments above about adding highlights, etc, but right now you just need to set self-illumination to 100% to get the same flat colors as in the tutorial. You can´t really compare those two with these different settings.…
Nice job on the tutorial! Really cool seeing people watch the 3d Motive video. I think like @zakhar2 you're lacking contrast. There's some other issues (wood lacking, bounce lighting, etc) but the contrast will help a ton.
Here is something I came up with in my spare time.................I kid, I kid. As many of you will probably realize this is the tutorial from 3dmotive. As I don't have any background in the traditional arts I wanted to try to get the techniques down before I started on something more original. The reason I am posting this…