Honor Guard Presentation
All,
I wanted to show off my final Blender work. I was tasked by the Officer-in-charge of the Base Honor Guard to make a short 30-second video for use in briefings and commander calls. I went four times over the requested time length, but 30 seconds is a short time period to try to sell something.*
I went out and, holding a camera and tripod upside down to help steady it, recorded about 4GB worth of HD footage of them practicing. I combined that with an additional 4GB of SD footage from previous performances and three low-res YouTube screen-grabs of other base honor guards (the last three shots).
Here is the non Blender version:
*30 seconds: Okay, I know commercials are only 30 seconds long, there are lots of them, and they sell lots of stuff. I’m not good at making commercials. 
Thank you for taking a look! 
Best wishes for the future. I really liked your work so I hope you find time in the future to start again. You conclude in your post that you feel you didn’t inspire anyone, or make anyone feel good. Your work certainly inspired me and I felt good seeing the quality of your videos. The internet is a strange place. You can have an influence on many people without you ever knowing it because you never have the opportunity to meet them. But just as in the real world, if you do good things it will be noticed, and over time good will come of it. So I look forward to seeing your art in the future. Regards. ijay