This thread is 🔥
Excellent job, Aaron. Skilled blendering, helpful insight, and even entertainment. The trifecta! Obviously you’re getting an A++ on the homework. No surprise there.
Though I will echo Katerina about the characters blending into the background. Since you are telling a story, I think you need to introduce blurring (depth of field) where the background is out of focus and the characters in focus. It’s a hard choice since you’ve put so much effort into the background, but it will surely help the composition.
Heh kinda funny that I’m giving you this level of critique on a primitives-only exercise 😅