Learned this week: the " . " key.
...Yeah, sometimes it's the little things.
A cat (not Jenny! The baby!cat) ripped two keys off my laptop's numpad, and if you use Blender, you might know those are camera hotkeys. When crazy glue didn't solve my problem, I bought a $10 USB keyboard from WalMart and layed the whole thing on top. Functional solution?
Status on the video: I've finished blocking all the shots and keying the lip-syncing. Now it's just 5,000 more frames of armature animation and adding effects (including an explosion! Woo!)
I'd like to be finished by the end of this month, and I'm working a bunch of hours every day on this, so I think it's do-able. I *really* wanted to finish before January, but I guess I underestimated the project, not to mention the weeks spent sorting out Cycles. That happens, eh? Hopefully the end product will be worth it, and then I can hurry off to draw comics and start my next video.