Here's the finished first shot with sound! That's attached below.
I used the forest environment and to spice things up I animated the fake shadows (which are just tree canopy shaped textures mapped on a plane and only casting shadows)
I just parented them to an armature and animated a simple waving animation on the bones and made that cyclical. It ended up giving a nice subtle motion to the shadows in the final renders!
I really like how the environment looks tbh... with the depth of field blurring things a bit you can barely tell that there's no real shrubbery, it's just alpha transparent shrub textures on simple planes :p it almost doesn't look like a very videogamey forest.

I was also working on a town area (inspired by messing around with some old, era-appropriate textures I found on archive.org). I still can't decide on the story and stuff fully yet... but I have decided it'd be fun to feature characters from the Star Erotics setting in this in a Deltarune kind of way (Cerenthea would be a powerful magician princess/queen who rules over her subjects with a kind heart and everyone thinks she's hot) They have statues of her in the town!
I think it looks pretty good!? Like some real cutting-edge-graphics-for-the-90s
I was wondering what this town area looks like closer up (for like, FMV purposes) and... it actually looks kinda great when there's heavy compression at 480x270. Real FMV vibes.
If you're into making 90s 3d graphics... you have check out what they have on archive. It's a goldmine of authentic texture CDs.
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22textures%22
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