Hi Ryan,

> Does anyone know of any good tutorials online to introduce me to this?

There are a pretty nice set of general 3D introductory videos done by the "Guerrilla CG Project" which covers some basic concepts for 3D rendering, check them out here: http://vimeo.com/user904568

Those might be a good starting point.

- Michael

Thanx The Mad Hatter,
I uses Cinema 4D to render practically for all stuff in my gallery.
I recommend it to you. It's not complicated like other software and at the same time can produce great result.
There is a lot of tutorials about rendering in Cinema 4D, so you just have to google it.

May be you can start from here: http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/tutorials/