When i started to render the animation i had to add multiple lights. I did have a light but that was not sufficient enough. i ended up having to put 3 omni lights up. 2 of which were white lights and i was a yellow light. when i rendered the scene to see what i was like, it was much to bright. I had to the edit the lights bringing down the brightness down a lot. I ended up having 2 white lights at about .3 and the yellow light a little brighter at .4. This made a huge difference to the animation giving it some very nice shadow effect. I had to also position the lights very carefully so that it would brighten the whole scene and not just parts of it. I did this by positioning it in a triangle.