Setting up an alarm clock for rendering

This tutorial walks through the setup, material application and rendering of an alarm clock. You'll see how to properly set up the components of the alarm clock using shapes and instances, edit some of the mesh with the polygon tools, apply some materials, and then walk through a rendering.
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Controlling your light intensity through material parameters

Here are two videos which show how to control the lighting in a scene by adjusting several material channels. The diffuse and ambient amount channels govern how much light is absorbed or reflected back to the viewer. These videos show how to use them.
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