Sort of bad news (Patreon)
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So I found all my original files but I also just found out that mental ray, the renderer I used for the original animation I just showed you, was discontinued a few years ago lol. So many of the lights and textures in the scene are no longer available.
This means I need to replace them all in the scene and possibly have to learn the renderer that replaced Mental Ray. It's called Arnold.
I think I'm going to have to switch everything to Scanline rendering. It's going to take even more time and it's going to look quite different from what I posted but it's still possible.
This is what happens when things are started and stopped I guess!