Here are some more in-depth renders of what the room is going to look like (lighting is still in the works):







It's come to my attention that creating fire in 3DS Max looks good (if done right), but takes a ridiculous amount of time. Far too long. So I have decided to do them in After Effects - at least the lesss important and prominent sparks and flames.

This test looks good, but took far too long to do:




Click on it. It's HD and looks damn good. When fire is prominent I'll do it this way. But it takes forever and a day to render.


Storyboards coming along nicely. Almost done. Soon I'll work on the animatic. I have the story all worked out and have all three witches have good parts, and one of them I might not have to render fully (although to compensate I'll have to do a frog)