Holly,

The current Anisotropic algorithm is highly view dependent and falls off really quickly as the angle between the light and the camera increases. Try moving your camera around so that it's facing the same direction as your lights and then rotate away from there.

It works pretty good for silks, satins, and anodized metals, but doesn't work as well as I'd like for doing the brushed metal look which is why it's currently being reworked. This weekend had a breakthrough in the image quality and now it's down to some loose ends and performance tuning. I'm hoping to have an update in the next couple of weeks that will fix Anisotropic's short comings.

Regards,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guilds
3D plug-ins for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins