My first animation in Blender 3D

Artwork Animations
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                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp146L3iPy8

I don’t know what’s missing, but I’m not satisfied about the result.
not realistic enough… maybe the wrong lighting?

I used a defocus node, a blur- and a glare node for the candles, because I don’t know how to create realistic candle lights. In the post production I used gausian blur to start.

Please give me some critique.
Thanks.

2

Did you make all of the scenery and everything?

3

No, I have used an image for the scenery, and the textures from CGtextures.com

4

You modeled the stairs and everything though?