Renderific!

I also placed a spot light off in the distance to make the finished version look a little less crappy.

Rendered version:

And deeper still...

The animation plops said fruits into the bowl. The orange and pear have bumpmaps on them to try and give them a more realistic look. it helps, but doesn't entirely work. I've yet to figure out how to give them a more realistic feel. Till then i shall stick with cartoony i suppose! The orange and bowl have downloaded textures stretched over them, which only show when they are rendered.






boy do i wish i were better at maya...

Deeper into the depths...

I have constructed a bowl through use of uv curves:








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I then made more fruit to accompany said bowl:

The Beginning...

Maya......i've never used it before.

I have made an apple: