
The EVERMOTION team care of Kuba Dabrowski shows how to use some more advanced V-Ray refractive functions that can handle the complex light refractions, realistically creating a diamond material.

eosacro demonstrates one of the basic concepts in compositing, premultiply and unmultiply, and provides a great example of exactly what is happening when an image with RGBA is premultiplied.

Javis Jones wrote a little script for modo which will allow you to use the Maya “D” and “V” hotkeys for moving the pivot or counterpoint of an object and snapping to vertex or vertices respectively.