This is getting close to final. There's a couple of rendering glitches I'd love to fix, but they're very low priority in the grand scheme of things right now so if there's time further down the road I'll deal with them. They include motion blur on the character between a camera cuts and a swimming texture on the wings. But for effects it's looking pretty good. Iskander gave me numerous different effect types to work with in the comp and overall they added up to too much effect. I used them all but had to find creative ways to blend them and balance them against each other until the overall effect was effective without distracting from the performance. In many ways I'd say we spent too long on effects for just this shot. But it's been a learning experience and I'd hope that we'll churn out related effect for other shots faster.

Please note that this is a combination of 2D and 3D effects, but the 2D effects generally take far less time. So anything we can do in 2D is worth it.