That looked beautiful! Like Pritchard, I love the effects and how well they are incorporated into the film.
I also enjoyed the music.
And I can't wait to see the final product, as it's sure to be epic. Glad to here you've completed a big step towards the end. Keep it up!

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2nd place Darkness and Light entry: The Tree
Behind the Scenes

ok, do you need a composer? I am very happy to make a score, or part of one for such an awesome project....

ok, well, cool none the less.. good luck with it all and that too...

Wow, this is coming along nicely. I'm not gonna bug you guys with "wahowh! when's this gonna come out? olol", but I did just want to say "great job, this is looking excellent".

*Update*

Whelp.  It's that time of day (more like year at this point actually) again - time for another update!  Since our last update, we have been creating rough-cuts of all the scenes in the movie, and are in the process of creating a final-rough-cut (not even sure if that is a real thing).  As well, we have also been working on developing some of the more difficult VFX in the film (not that any of them are really that easy ).  Here is a pic from one of our latest tests:

Lesson learned?  Rendering roughly two million particles with motion blur is harder on my computer than I thought.

Also, as most of you probably know, the primary antagonist in this film is a dragon.  You probably also remember that this dragon is going to be completely digital, since animating it with standard stop-motion would prove to be too difficult and time consuming.  Well, back in November of 2011 we posted a picture of our first draft of the dragon.  Here is the picture again for those of you who don't remember:

Why are we posting this again you might ask?  Well, the reason is that we recently finished creating the second draft for the dragon!  We went in and completely redid everything, from the joints to the design.  After tripling the amount of joints and bricks, as well as many sweat-filled hours of designing and redesigning, here is dragon 2.0:

(You can click for a higher quality image.)

As you can probably see, this dragon is both bigger and (we hope) scarier than the last dragon.  It also moves more realistically (hence the added joints).  You also may notice that the textures are a bit more realistic than our last dragon.  We have been spending a lot of time trying to emulate  the look of LEGO bricks, and while we may not have it down quite yet, we are trying diligently to get there.   Here is a quick little GIF for those of you who were wondering what the dragon looks like in different stages of rendering:

The order of images in the animation is Wireframe/Joints -> Camera Angle/Rough Lighting -> First Test Render -> Final Render with advanced reflections.

Well, that's it for this update.  We hope that the size of this update will make up for the fact that we haven't made one in a while.  After all, during this stage of development we don't want to reveal too much.   Thanks for all the support guys, and please let us know what you think of the new dragon!

I really like the design of the dragon, and the brick textures look pretty darn good guys, although now you have the LEGO Movie to live up to.

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"I am fire...I am death."
Oh wait, wrong movie dragon.

Still, that is pretty amazing. The design is great, then textures look much better, and I just know it's going to look stupendous. Any chance of seeing it in action soon?

Everything looks so awesome, can't wait!

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That dragon is beautiful.