Kids have more fun

Found this post with some amazing photos of children around the world caught in the act of, well, being kids :-) . For one it's a great anatomy and pose reference, since finding good references of children can be difficult (especially in this day and age when unfortunately, an innocent internet search can take you places you don't want to go). Furthermore, I love how these photos manage to capture the emotion of each moment and then seem to freeze them in time, much like Rockwell was able to do in so many of his illustrations.

         http://www.boredpanda.com/happy-children-playing/

V-Ray/Arnold Resource

Just stumbled across this website today, the MAXDEPTH page include tutorials and tips/tricks for rendering in both V-Ray and Arnold, as well as a little bit of Zbrush and Mari as well. Looks like a pretty good resource :-)

Also, Grant Warwick's Mastering V-Ray is another good V-Ray resource. The full course costs money, but even the 2 free videos he has posted on the page are quite useful. And although he uses V-Ray for 3ds Max, the general principles are the same and can be applied to V-Ray for Maya (for the most part).