It's been so long in the making that I think I'll take you through the brief history of Planetoid - Chapter 4

2009
Originally, it was going to be heavily vectored and styled.

This got dumped pretty quick. I changed to a song by T-Free, and animated the first few shots in the style I would end up sticking to.

Then F-777 released a song at the end of 2009, that I felt was perfect, so I scrapped the T-free song, brought in a longer intro, and storyboarded some weird tentacle scene.

2010
The tree shift was horrendously ugly, so I reapproached that. Then I discovered Flash CS5's new Z-depths, but found it incompatible with the old file I was working with (or something), so I did some wierd thing that incorporated another file that I doubt I could pull off a second time, and somehow, I found myself with a pretty rockin' looking river.

I now hit this roadblock. I was kind of at this point where I needed to animate some... geometric, kinda... dancy backgrounds. Rave lights 'n' the like, so I handed it over to Tarienn for a bit, hoping he'd be able to help me out. He did some great stuff, including the purple-wire laser gate thing, but I found myself stuck with the backgrounds still, which I'll be redoing soon.

It was around this time I got my cintiq, and from then on, it was pretty much smooth sailing, except that, after I showed a few people what I had done so far, they compared the tentacle.. pick-up thing to hentaii, so I had to redo it. I'm glad I did though. It definitely works a lot better.

2011
Nothing happened.
Legit.
I hardly ever worked on this.
For a whole year.

2012

I started studying animation at Griffith Film School, going to the same classes, and being taught by the same teachers, that Tarboy's James Lee was. During the semester, I didn't get much chance to really work on this, as I had to focus on assignments a lot more.

But then semester ended.

And then the rush for RobotDay began.

I hadn't worked on it much leading up to the '1 month left' mark, so it looked pretty much like this. (still had tentacles)

2 weeks left
As you can probably guess, I was FREAKING OUT.

1 week left
Every waking moment, when I was not at work, was devoted to getting this done. I was on the cusp the whole time. I might make it, I might not.

Four days
And I'm actually lying when I say four days to complete it, because I went away on that weeks holiday two days before Robotday, and I had to have it done by then. So really, I had two days. Two days to animate everything that wasn't complete in this file.

And I was so close.
I slept very little that week. Usually about three hours a night. An all nighter the evening before I had to catch a plane at 5am. And I was two shots short. Two shots that I could've quickly rushed something out for in twenty minutes, but I had to leave for the plane then and there. So I uploaded what I had done.

That's not the exact file I originally uploaded. There were some unfortunate layer mixing issues that went wrong in the all nighter, and things got out of sync towards the end. I forgot to save a copy of it for this document before I fixed it, but this is essentially what was uploaded.

And that's it, pretty much.
I feel it would've been received a lot better had I uploaded it when it was complete, and maybe I'll still pull it down and reupload it when I'm actually happy with it.
I would have already, but I'm curious to see how well it does in the Robotday competition.