The client came in to look at the cloud shot and offered a vastly different direction to the many I had been chasing down on previous days. I started the shot once again, virtually from scratch. Another day was spent finessing this version. It always amazes me how extra time magically appears. Do we have a week for all shots or somehow a week on this shot? Those types of things also help determine which approach will be taken to do a task. I was starting to think that volumetric 3D clouds would be the better approach, though I did not think I had adequate time to get up to speed on the tools and with the added level of complexity, there was a good chance I would be brought down by long render times (meaning you have one shot to get it right, if that) and there are so many deep layers of options and tools (meaning there are a million ways to mess up).Still, I did what I do. I pushed the whole day on the new direction, using the tools that I knew I could deliver with and handed in a new version before I left at night.