HDRI lighting test.
 

Any comments? After working through the animation\compositing tutorial (Front projection) I had to find out more stuff and started exploring HDRI today..... I cant beleive I waited so long! this stuff looks awesome! anyhoo if this works you should see an animation... I used one of the same HDRI's that Paul Debevec used in his ground breaking short "Fiat Lux" http://www.zombieville.com/HDRI_test.avi

forgot to mention, for the scene I used the light at 0% and radiosity set to 40% It seemed to bright otherwise.

Did you use Divx for the compression? Around the Sphere the compression is really aparent. Try setting Divx to One Pass Quality and Crank the Quantizer to 2 or 100% the highest, and use Quarter Pixel, and Bi Directional encodeing you will still get a small file size and a cleaner animation.

Whoa. That looks trully awesome.

<adldesigner makes a note: "after learning how to model, check HDRI>