Unfortunately, I have no idea how to change vimeo's settings so that you can see this larger. You'll just have to download the AVI.

But as far as what this video is about... I just wanted to make a new wallpaper for my computer at work which has two screens. I liked the idea of having a rocket maybe with someone riding it and I knew I wanted to render it with Indigo which I recently started using. Instead, the rocket looks not quite what I thought it would.. certainly not the same angle I envisioned, but to help the two screen problem I put a little man spectating the launch.

I like this scene because it culminates a lot of the things that I've learned how to do with Blender very well. The dust from the blast is a trick I picked up from the box modeling challenge. Modeling the human with metaballs is something I like to do for its incredible speed. I usually do it anyway and then use retopo. And using advanced lighting renderers has always been something that is of great interest to me, so there are no lamps in this scene. It's just the fire's mesh emitting light.

Here's the image: dl.getdropbox.com/u/57509/Indigo%20Renders/im1216001541.png