I realize that there are about a million clay render tutorials out there, and thousands for 3d Studio Max. Unfortunately, many people are still hung up on how to do them as evidenced by the questions we get in the 3dTotal forums. To resolve this, I’ve decided to write my own that I can reference whenever the question comes up.

The final render.

Our final clay render.

In the same spirit as my toaster tutorial (which will eventually get copied to this blog), I’d like to clearly outline every step in the process so as to leave no questions.