to be fair, i had AO set at 50% and once i turned the camera into the "sunset", i faded the AO out and processing sped up.

You can add an ambient lighting node to the ambient occlusion node, to fake a fill light.

55 seonds per frame is very fast. Ambient occlusion alone takes me about 3 min. per frame. Maybe I need a new computer.

>>10184 thank you ftcyp! i used some ambient occlusion and environment lighting instead of fill - i thought the result was much more satisfying. rendering each frame (with the skydome) took about 55 seconds, on average. total of 1140 frames. :)

>>10182 thanks jesuschrist! i'm so happy my balls could make your day!! :D

>>10081
Great job!
How many lights did you use? It looks like you didn't use any fill light at all.
How long did it take you to render that?

>>10089 O M G ! ! ! ! !
BEST PORNO EVER!!! XD

>>10081 Wow! If I wanted to watch two balls with tails shagging in a tree this movie you made would make me the happiest person in the world...

...Luckily for you I did! :D

thanks seafox! :D

Here's my first shot at animation! ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-YZfdDAiXY
It's some sort of new feature on YouTube! XD

Looks great! They would make a wonderful pet! ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW30-059EB0

so happy this one is done!! :D

update: yes, you can do a skybox in ae. yes i have tried it and composited (which firefox says is not a real word, along with "skybox", "ae", and "firefox") and i am not loving my keylighting abilities nor the final render.

i think i'll continue wearing down my computer by processing it all in blender :)

ftcyp, can a skydome be made in after effects?? i ask because i like to move my camera around ALOT and i need a 360 background for the scene.. never seen a tut on that type of thing, but I will research it now. thanks!

skywraith - what is what? :D

Normaly I would suggest rendering this without the background. Add it in post, on After Effects or something. Much easier on the computer.

What is it?