Santherapy: Yeah the hip area is like that until i give him some texture. That's usually a normal thing. It's the other shadows i'm curious about.

millighost: It's a default michael 4 figure. Let me try to add a texture to him and see if that gets better results.

edit Ok, i added a texture from the hero series. Does this look alright and normal? Or do i have to tweek my raytrace settings some more? What i did was lower the shadow setting from 1 to .7, shadow blur radius to 5, and shadow min bias to .1 (i heard i should always lower this when raytracing to avoid artifacts).

Does it still look too cartoony and bad?