Computer Animation Arts

Can anyone suggest why I can't get my chrome to look like chrome when I render please? Is it something to do with the light? The floor? If I have the wrong settings? Raytrace is on this time, thats where I had the problem last time. It has some shine in the render but it's still awful. I will be placing the chair in an alternative scene eventually but shouldn't it be all set up looking correct for when I do put it in there?

"Born in 1925, from an early age Kihachiro Kawamoto was captivated by the art of doll and puppet making. After seeing the works of maestro Czech animator Jiri Trnka, he first became interested in stop motion puppet animation and during the 50s began working alongside Japan’s first stop motion animator, the legendary Tadahito Mochinaga. In 1958, he co-founded Shiba Productions to make commercial animation for television, but it was not until 1963, when he traveled to Prague to study puppet animation under Jiri Trnka for a year, that his puppets truly began to take on a life of their own. Trnka encouraged Kawamoto to draw on his own country’s rich cultural heritage in his work, and so Kawamoto returned from Czechoslovakia to make a series of highly individual, independently-produced artistic short works, beginning with Breaking of Branches is Forbidden (Hana-Ori) in 1968. Heavily influenced by the traditional aesthetics of Noh, Bunraku doll theatre and Kabuki, since th...

For wire's fall I used cloth simulation. One building and the street were selected as rigid bodys. How to properly save wire's animation so it works each time the scene is opened? Also the street no longer seems to have a shader which was asigned, instead there is only the main lambert. And it doesn't render street also. Any advice could help

Fish Eye Lens Camera for Maya from www.creativecrash.com. http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/shaders/c/db-fish-eye-lens-shader

I don't know if this applies to any CGA students - but apparently emails have been sent out to any students still owing money. Check your UCA emails, as if you are late with a payment, there is a charge...and it goes up the longer you leave it!

Is there a better alternative way of fixing the gaps between the seat other than merging the vertexes manually?