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Raxx: the image is in perspective view and not entirely from the side, thats why the hind legs look shorter. 

keep working on it davdud, it'll get there eventualy

hello,

i've been working on this project for about a year now, and to be honest i'm absolutely terrible at lighting. also i cannot render because i have a laptop and it is always moving, i don't have enough time to get in the render before i have to pack up and leave.

could i get someone to help please? mainly what i need is help improving the lighting and getting it rendered. i know it's quite a bit to ask.

yes, i've used the graph editor. it's that the morphs overlap and that can sometimes make udesirable results.

but i'm an absolute perfectionist, so it may just be my mindset

Another option you could use to make a heart that is less blocky is to use a spline to make the shape, then go to build>fill to to make the spline a mesh, select all of the random faces in the middle and press CTRL+M. Doing this will merge all of those random faces together to make one whole face. once you've merged the faces you can extrude in order to make more points that you can work with to make it have depth. Mirror like Pincho said. You will have to press build>join solids after you have mirrored in order to get the two halves to go together. then select all of the points where the two halves meet and press Shift+L and press ok on the dialogue box that pops up. this will merge all of the points together to make it a seamless match, just like you and your valentine  . then subdivide until all of the rough edges come off.

a long winded way to make a heart, but the results can look nice. a little experimentation can also go a long way

ok, thanks for offering Kubajzz. i'll e-mail them to you now. i don't mind if anybody sees them

Anim8or is also very computer friendly.

i can't get into Blender because my computer can't handle it, but the computer can do even the hardest operation in Anim8or with no problems or skipping.

one more question, how would i fix that bright line on the corners of the room? if possible i just want to tone it down though. the line is unintentional but if i could make it less bright that would be great.

I'm sorry, but looking in a bright light at brush strokes is not what you have represented in your image. You have represented an entire two tone stipple effect over the whole room, including the laptop.

i need to make the Anti-Aliasing a big higher? it's at 81 now.

also i don't feel like making a specular map.

The carpet looks like plaster of Paris.

it does doesn't it?   i'd never thought of it that way.

thats my wimpy lighting in the real room, the camera couldn't get an even enough picture to use as a hight map. so i made do with what i could. i could UV map the texture smaller but there would be obvious tiling, i figured the big bumps looked better than stripes.


one more question. how would i fix that bright line on the corners of the room? if possible i just want to tone it down. it is unintentional

update
i fixed the floor, it looks more like carpet now.

i'm doing a render at 100 AA that looks a bit better