Dance As Though No One Was Watching

Contest entry for 's contest 'effort in the making'.  Category: Time of your life (or greatest achievement.  not intended to fit both, but it did).

Based off of an RP between .  Her OC, Valery, gets placed in a dancing competition and nerves start to take over.  She then remembers something that Sid told her once.  'Dance as though no one was watching.  Remember that and you'll be fine.  And if ya have to, Close your eyes.  That way you don't see everyone.'

Remembering this, she closed her eyes, and began her dance.  It was as if she was walking on clouds, her movements flawless.

Also, despite that it is an object, I wanted to give props to my computer.  For not being a gaming machine, it held up AND rendered 31 character models, accessories, cameras, and lights.  And SFM crashed only twice on me.  I am now impressed.

The project itself, took me probably nearly 10 hours to do.  This process was on and off for a week and actually my biggest one yet.  I also used many effects that I have never used before.

Here are the 3 originals: