good job

thanks

huggles* welcome

I think your render is a little too grainy. I could be wrong but I think you need to mess with your "final gather" settings a little. Also, the specularity on the red side of the pokeball is so tight that it has jagged, pixelated edges, it just needs to be a smidge less tight.

But those are small things. Otherwise, this is looking great!

thanks for the tips! i'm really bad at rendering, this is the first time i've ever succesfully gotten the look i wanted XD thats why i always render stuff with matte coloring, like the other pic of this pokeball

What program are you using? If you're using Maya I could give you some very specific pointers. If not I can't give you any more precise comments than I already have :P

i use blender, i'd switch to something better, but i'm to lazy to relearn i different program

I've used blender, but I'm not really very experienced with it. I need to learn more, lol.

Your getting really good at it lil bro

This makes me really miss being able to run blender...!

You're really getting quite talented! And, at the risk of sounding sorta dorky (and it's been quite awhile since I've blendered anything), but I'm actually very impressed with how smoothly the two halves of the ball curve around the button.

Huh, I don't quite remember the render settings; I thought there once was some sort of option to help 'blend' the light paths around to make it less grainy... I'd need to open the thing to look it up.
How many passes/samples are you doing, out of curiosity (and maybe what was your render time, if you remember?)

(I probably have no idea what I'm talking about, oops)

thanks so much!! and the smooth curve around the button was somethin i did myself :D if you look at pics of pokeballs, they always have a sharp edge where the round part goes around the button