arrrrrrrrr bloody rendering. :headbang:

sorry had to get that out of my system.

Having major problems with shadows, color and lighting. remove any of the above 3 and the other two work fine but put them togeather and poof major problems.
My shadow layer was taking up to 3 hours per frame to render, which is just not good enuff. Rostoons has been giving me some useful tip (and may I just say thank you to him right now) but I feel I have still lost alot of the smoothnes I got from the stills with no textures on it.

I just want it to look like this but in color



below is a 2 second clip that took me 2 days to layer up and render, but I`m still not happy with it and don`t know what to do. I like the way the desk and the monitor are looking but the rest is looking flat. Each frame is taking about 17 min which I can live with just I wanted it to look nicer. Any ideas anyone

clip

P.S just noticed I left the detail Layers of the mouse so forget about that.