OMG! Crush time!

I know I've been absent for a while, but the hammer has finally fallen and the long process is nearing its end. I got a phone call from the director a week ago which said, in effect, "They've noticed that it's behind schedule and we need it finished next week."

!!!

I'm sitting here, patiently waiting for answers to some of my pressing questions - how many glacial pulses do we need to see? Is there a magma pocket there? Or the vertical dykes straight enough? And, suddenly, I've got to do 6 weeks worth of modeling, rendering, and compositing in the next 6 days!

I haven't even built geography for several of the scenes, as they kept changing drastically every time we got a new round of comments in from the geologists. I'd built a couple of landscapes that weren't going to be used at all. It's not like tearing up a 5 minute sketch; there's a lot of work involved.

So I decided to sit tight and wait for final answers before committing any more time to scene building.

And now this! YARG!

Everything fancy I was planning just got thrown out the window. I've got several scenes to finish - and, in some cases, to start - in just a few days.