Nice!
An Idea to make it a bit more realistic looking (the candle wax looks like plastic a bit now) is adding translucency. Anim8or of course does not have this, but if you look at pictures from lit candles (
http://www.freefoto.com/images/90/18/90_18_85---Christmas-Candle_web.jpg?&k=Christmas+Candle ) it is pretty straight-forward; at the top there is more light shining through the wax, as you go down less light comes through.
Now a way to achieve this in Anim8or I think would be to add an Emissive texture to your candle material : a pretty normal gradient with at the top yellow-ish light shining through, fading to black for the bottom (black = no light emitted)
Not sure if it would work but you can give it a try for extra realism
Also, but you know this already, some lighting/shadows would add to the candle-effect
Gd luck & nice going!
