Wormgod,

Thanks for the feedback - I really appreciate your candidness and would love some help from you when you get some free time.

I used Poser and Vue d'Esprit to render the animations. I just recently acquired Maya 5.0 Complete and will be switching over to that as soon as I can get everything figured out.

I used my own program to do some of the compositing as I couldn't find anything out there (in the low budget arena) that could do what I wanted. The animations were rendered using Ray Tracing, but perhaps I don't have the lighting set correctly if you think they don't look they are really in the scene... Maybe it also due to the low quality 360 x 240 video size. I have a 720 x 480 version that I could make available to you if you would like to see it.

I would love any help you could offer me on how to make my animations look more real. My plan is to someday make my own animation software that is not file based...

Thanks again for your comments,

Brent