Update

For the critique, I've been able to get some sample video sequences done.  Thanks to getting the render garden functioning with Modo, some of the renders take 5 minutes, as opposed to 5 hours.

These videos include the first scene parts, which then go right into the loops.

Making the music is proving to be quite fun.  Everything is really in place as a technical framework, so now it's just on to pure content creation, which is a blast.