The grand mantis series Part 3: Material setup for Luxrender! Organic materials in physically-based renderers like Luxrender tend to be difficult. Unless Frederik Steinmetz is your tutor!

In this interim tutorial for the great mantis series Frederik Steinmetz will show us how to light in Luxrender and Blender. As usual he shows us possible problems and their solutions!

The grand mantis series Part 2: Advanced Cycles materials! Learn how to set up advanced materials in Cycles plus even more lighting tips from Fredrik Steinmetz!

Frederik Steinmetz is back with a comparison of Cylces, Luxrender and Blender Internal. For that series he will use a praying mantis as an example. This first installment gives you an overview of the model and tips on modeling and rigging insects in Blender.