Modelling a spaceship: 2 hours
Figuring out how to texture a planet: 2 hours
3D Studio Max crashing: GAO DESU!!!
Doing random little adjustments and wasting a lot time: 2 hours
Can’t finish rendering a 4000-frame animation in time to meet the assignment deadline: priceless

I rock.

Earth
ZOMG YES LENS FLARE!

Spaceship
Look mum, no propulsion!

Firing
Ooo, look at the lame laser effect

How did Makoto Shinkai make Hoshi no Koe on his Power G4 Mac without going insane is beyond me. And yes, I do realize that the sun shouldn’t be visible in the last picture…

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