Well, I'm really unsatisfied with this one, but I guess I should just stop fiddling with it and call it done. I guess the biggest problem I have with it is the composition.. like the tree and the girl are fighting to be the focal point.. I dunno how else to do it though, so I give up :b Anyway, the whole thing was inspired by my girlfriend's Japanese dance lessons, except they don't kill trees. I found it inspiring because the movements they make are very slow and graceful, yet there's quite a bit of power and control behind them. So anyway I had this kind of cliché idea of having a line coming directly out from her fan destroying something (the hidden power!!), probably a tree, but I couldnt decide on what kind of environment to stick it in. I guess I settled with snow because it's easier to do

On the technical side, I had quite a bit of trouble messing with cloth simulations until I got anything vaguely useable, even just for a still frame. Other problems abounded when I wanted to combine shag:hair (which I used for her..hair) with brazil's skylight and indirect illumination. So I ended up doing a lot of painting and compositing and general messing around in Photoshop until I got something close to what I wanted (so what else is new).

As for the title, it comes from a really pretty song from the Rurouni Kenshin oav soundtrack that I listened to a bit while working on the snowy environment.