i have adobe after effect, but its not a program im familiar with, i havent used it much.. i was hoping for a solution right in maya.. but if i have to do it in post production i guess that works too..

it could be the wood textures, and i fixed a few of them, and as for emitting photons i cant say ive ever done that before : / i may need to look up a tutorial. though i have no directional lights in my scene, they are all ambient

i lowered the tile in the kitchen to cut down on tripping, and about the couches, youve *obviously* never been to ikea, they are all stiff as a board.. : P jk, youre right, i'll get to work on that... could you explain what you mean by non uniformly scaling the cabinet drawers? do you mean i should make them less regular and skew the vertexes a bit or something? as for the textures some of them are stand ins unfortunately, but thats because i seem to have bad luck making my own and i dont really know where to find high res ones. speaking of textures and beveling, i seem to be having a new problem, i beveled a number of edges, but the textures dont appear to show up on any surface that has been beveled, its gone on the countertop, the fridge, most of the oven, the coffee table and the cabinet doors, but the textures stayed on objects that havent been beveled, i dont know why, i tried re creating the textures and re applying them, but that didnt seem to help.