Masterzone - Thanks for the reply. I actually did have "Alpha Channel" selected. I unselected it before I took the screen shot, but hopefully that is all that I need to do.

Can I go ahead and start another render and expect to see background this time?
Thanks for all your help!

Your post is kind of old already. Not a lot of activity here. Threads with 30 views and no responses. 8-) Anyways, in case your still there, I would go to Render > Make Preview You can click the "Manual" button if you want to just preview 10 frames out of 100, or even 90 out of 100, or whi...

I have seen a lot of talk about rendering a video or short animation as .tif or .png images for heavy-duty projects with LOTS of Global Illumination, Depth of Focus and Ambiance. I have an animation that would take 7 days of rendering to .avi or quicktime movie, so instead I want to try the Render A...

Well what you want to do Ziji Man is this:

Choose sub-division surfaces from the top tool bar. Then drag your sphere into the sub-division surfaces in your layer menu, so that the SD selection is the parent of the Sphere.

Voila....round, smooth sphere.

Can someone please advise me on this? I've used spheres before, no problem. For some reason one sphere is sharp-edged, or not perfectly smooth and round, and I already have it animated. I would rather use the sphere I have already because it is sized perfectly and animated perfectly, so I'm trying t...

I have a logo saved as a work path (.ai) from Photoshop CS6. I can easily open it in an empty C4D project. However, I have some pre-fabricated studio setups that I would like to use and I'm unable to load my work path (.ai) into one of these projects. I've tried to merge and a few other tricks, but ...