once all the objects had been put in place, this is the resulting scene. =]

i wanted to give the effect of tree tops blocking the sun, to do this i created several cylinders and placed them between the scene and a omni light, whihc was acting as the sun.

becasue of this, only a narrow amount of light could access the scene.

i needed a background for my scene, otherwise a large amount of empty blackness would b revealed.

To counter this, i created a large flat plane and found a woodlen picture, i then attached this to the plane and copied it four time (only 3 in this picture) to form a box around the scene.

This log was to be a big part of the scene, The exploding frog would sit on this through out the whole film (until the end of course)

This was created by using the tube tool.

i then editied either end by clicking the vertex's and moving them around to give it an uneven look.

The same material was used for this as the tree.

copying a past tutorial, i re-created a leaf and copied it many times and laid them out of the ground.

water reeds are to go along with the grass.

these were very simply created by using a cylinder, and the end was scaled. it was the bent slightly, and this is teh result

i wanted to add some tall grass to go around the edge of the water, i did this by using a cylinder, scalling it to make it narrow and flat.

The using soft selection and scale again, i narrowed the end to a point, and the bent it, so it was quite so straight.

i then copied it in a rotation pattern, and scaled each blade of grass so they were not the same size, random editing made the grass apear different, this was the grouped and copied several times over.