Thanks, for the explosive responses. I'm currently adept at Blender and Poser 7. I'm using them both conjunctively for different projects. I've been doing clothing and soft body work and sculpting in Blender then I'd import it into Poser and work on completing my characters there. After months of work I'm getting ready for some Killer Renders, but can't seem to even get them to resemble the Poser advertisements, let alone the desired Game results. It figures there isn't just a 3 step process for these type of things, but as in the 3D world is there really a 3 step process for anything nowadays? lol I like the Global Illumination idea. and will look into the bagginsbill threads. Up top is my first attempt at capturing the Soul Calibur lighting. I specifically like the one on that stage so  I'm trying to capture the greenish foreboding evil look. Didn't go so well. It's decent but still not high def quality or remarkable. What I did was subsurface scattered his skin, turned up the intensity of the lightes, changed the colors lengthened the shadows a little and vwala. Tips?