This is the first and opening tutorial on chocofur.com and I really hope you'll like it. Since I've received many e-mails and requests from other Blender users, the topic I'd like to cover is creating packshot renderings.

Our aim is to present the product in the best, possible way, very often using only one or two pictures. Final results are usually used in catalogs or brochures so keeping a uniform background and similar look is also very important.

Packshot renderings usually don't require any high-end hardware setup unless your producing ultra close-up shots with displacement maps, complex shaders and +10k textures. For most of the chocofur renderings I was using either a GTX 560 Ti with 2GB of ram RAM or GTX Titan.