Hi everyone, I have been working on this personal project on and off for the last couple months that I would love to share with you.
Ballad of the Night Prince
Within the moonlit glade, an extraordinary sight unfolds. A tall, elegant frog dons a resplendent attire, adorned with a crimson coat and a crown of shimmering gold. This is the Night Prince, a majestic amphibian who possesses a remarkable gift. As the evening mist settles, he perches atop a large lily pad, recorder in hand, ready to play beautiful music with his trusty frogling choir.
Almost everything was made with Blender other than a couple of textures and the water ripples and background image which were painted in Krita.
Here are some alternative renders:
Off the back of my last project - I knew I wanted to do more with animation and music. I’ve had this idea of a tall - long legged frog playing music in the back of my mind for some time. Rupert and the Frog Song was an animation musical my sister and I watched when we were little and I always wanted to do something like this.
After searching different audio providers for a background track I landed on this piece called Waltzing in Fantasy Land sold by pond5.
I love when music ties into animation and in this track I could see the interplay between the prince and froglings. It also helped that the music had a number of suitable looping points.
After animating the frogs, everything else in the scene seemed rigid, so I decided to animate everything to give the scene some life.
This involved hand animating the water ripples in Krita.
In the future I plan on uploading this project to Sketchfab. The spherical structure of the scene was chosen for this reason. I hope it would make an interesting model to rotate and observe in the browser.
Here are some early renders that show some of the initial idea blocking and progress:
I hope you like it!
Any comments, questions or thoughts please feel free to leave them below 
Thanks!
Joe
