You look - Arrospok

PeterD to be honest it prob took less time than some of the photoshoped efforts above.

can anyone tell me why youtube over compresses everything that you upload. That file was about 25MB and they have a limit of 100mb...so why all the compression?
It was renedered as an animation QT...so very little compression.

Animation codec with very little compression and NO key compression key framing (not to be confused with animation key framing) is about as good as it gets for the input stage.

Make sure you do the scaling of your render/edit to 320x240 - don't let Youtube do it as it uses a non-FIR crappy scaling algorithm (perhaps even a crude nearest neigbour scaler ?) and generally this is where a large part of the crappiness is introduced.

Or . . .

Forget youtube and host your movies at VIMEO [ http://www.vimeo.com/ ] open a (FREE!!) account - and upload high quality movies right up to Full HD (1920x1080) with stereo sound (youtube is mono) and much better compression (it supports H264 amongst other things) and takes in just about any format.

Compare these.

Type - Guinness Music Machine - into Youtube and have a look at the best quality you can find - now see how VIMEO handles it (link below) (the first play of a video on VIMEO is a bit choppy on my machine, but after it has played through once it will play smoothly everytime you hit the play button.

Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/389721