Wine bottle woodsman

This is a 30-second commercial-style animation I want to make. I've got a script, storyboards, and some rough timings. I would like to include as much interesting motion as possible, such as flocking birds and sloshing liquid.

I started the project a few years ago (like around 1995) when I used an Amiga. Here are some pictures from then.

Then I rebuilt everything in POV-Ray (around 1998). Here are some newer pictures.

For the most control, I'll probably move the whole thing to Renderman and render with the Blue Moon Rendering Tools.

8/27/2002 - Wouldn't that be nice. But Exluna pulled BMRT. So maybe I'll keep sitting on this project until povray has a complete shader system, and then use povray.