Good news, around 75 to 80 % of the movie is done, so if I can work fast enough I will be able to submit it before returning to school.

Thanks to somebody from my school I tried Blender, an open source 3D rendering program. With it I was able to create some scenes that looks really good, way better that what I could do using Wings 3D (The screenshot below is a still from a raytraced scene made in Blender, don't ask me how much time it took just to render it.). I already have 108 seconds of raytraced 3D animation (I don't count what I already made in Wings 3D).

This means that Yoki's Story 5 will have a lot of 3D effects, more than the 4 previous episodes combined. Because of that the filesize of the movie is already over the 10 megabyte limit (12.9 mb for the moment). I am not sure if I will ask for a favor or sacrifice the quality of the movie. If you have recommendation on how to keep it small it would be great, but I don't want to waste your time with a problem like this.

So now that this is said I just want to wish to everybody on Newgrounds a happy new year.