I just entered another CGSociety challenge. I entered the B-Movie challenge last year and lost about month's worth of sleep just trying to get the image rendered at full resolution. Here's the great part, though... This year I entered the animation section. So if I lost a month's worth of sleep trying to render one image, and now I'm doing about 4 minutes of animation at 30 frames per second, by the numbers I can expect to lose about 600 years worth of sleep by February. nice.
In all seriousness though, I probably am in over my head. I've got two other big projects that take precedent and a full time job. I just couldn't turn this dow