Well, I started building my barn and putting my characters together in the same scene! It's pretty exciting! Here's a preview of some of my renders from the rough layout work. I just threw in a MentalRay Physical Sun for these shots to try to see how things would need to be placed to get my shaft of light to highlight the tuffet.
The depth of field here was really expensive. It took 11.5 min to render this single 960x540 frame, and that's not even full resolution! I'll need to look into cheaper solutions to achieve this effect.
