Here is an updated image. Yes I am using the paint effects conversion. I am trying to get the details around the door correct before I try to model other artifacts. Kinda working inside out.

This is a small personal project that I am working on for myself. I have been using maya sporadically, but now I am back at it full time and am trying to make a career for myself with it again.

Try moving the light maybe in the middle of the room and changing the decay rate to quadratic. you will have to increase the number that significantly by typing it in. You can also try setting up...

it is a very good start. But watch the hotspots created from the lights on the floor and wall. Also try turning you reflection atrribute down to like .033 or none at all. Consider the surface...

I will be starting the ninja tutorial and I can't wait to recieve it in the mail. This is as close as I have come to modelling a character ing maya