http://www.eovia.com/resources/carrara_tutorials/carrara_tutorials.asp The landscape tutorial is very good... Considering the scale of the Bionicle robots (if you are going for the toy scale that is), they would probably be shot using a 120-200mm lens, which would be placed at a rather short distance from them, thus giving a very small focal depth... So as GW said, a lot of things would have soft focus... Lighting: Try to get a little bit of frontal lighting as a fill light, just put a spot close to the camera and point it at the subject, give it a slightly wide half angle, and give it a nice soft angular and range fall off, and set its range lower (no need to have it affecting all the background stuff)... Key light should always come from the inside of the axis (not the camera axis, or the XYZ axes, but the axis of action, as in the direction the bionicle character is looking)... If you look at 3/4 portraits (look at Morgan Freeman on the cover of Se7en, it's a good example) the light is coming from the inside out (almost like a backlight, but you don't want it to be an actual backlight you rather want it to come slightly from the side(well in real life, as it would require flagging and stuff when taking a picture if it was an actual backlight to avoid flares))... But for you to see the entire figure, use a fill light as I talked about above, as it will remove a lot of nasty shadows (essential on character lighting, as hard shadows from noses and such, is frowned upon)... Looking good, I like the suitcase, keep up the good work... And don't get discourage from all the lighting stuff I wrote. ;)