But I've done videos before where I used Star Wars music and I never had a problem. All that happened was that I had to accept the 3rd party claim and that was it.

Doesn't matter. It's like any risk: 99 times things go smoothly, but hell can break loose on the 100th. I did a Bionicle series once that was five parts and used music from The Matrix Trilogy, Star Wars and the actual Bionicle movies. Part 1 got a 3rd party claim, part 2 was left alone, parts 3 and 4 were muted, and part 5 got a 3rd party claim. See what I mean?

Besides, the more 3rd party claims you get, I think you can run the risk of getting one of those red marks on your account.

That. There are plenty of remixes out there; I'm sure someone on YouTube will let you use theirs as long as you properly credit them for it.

Trust me, using copyrighted music is a mess. If you start getting into the habit of not using copyrighted material, it'll make your life simpler in the long run. I never look back.

I hope you don't feel like I'm putting a downer on your film. I'm actually really quite interested to see the end product; you've got a lot of interesting frames so far, from what you've put here and in other threads.

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How does this look?

Ok. Thanks, this is not final so I thought I'd get some thoughts on it.  What's a good texture?

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I suggest you set up a test file with only one or two bricks (makes rendering go quicker), and then play around with the materials and textures until you find something relatively realistic. Then, you can use those settings as a basis for your actual scene. Also, here's a nice tutorial using Blender 2.48a. You could use the settings here to help figure out a similar result in cycles.

Also, I find that frame to be very washed out (maybe because of having ambient occlusion too high?). And for the color of the scene, I'd suggest something a touch darker and more blue, with lighting to match the background sky.

And my final thought on the frame is that the vehicles are too uniform and colorful. Hope this helps a little.

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Jango Fett by Galactic Bricks, on Flickr

Well that sucks. The frames looked really cool, I'm sad to hear they're all gone.

That sucks.

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