The ending...

These are just a couple snapshots of my ending of the movie. With the day coming to an end with the sphere melting into the ground.

Material Change

Cant uploads videos still for some reason so here some snapshots of changing material.

Update - Tutorials

Tutorials :
My own attempts at the tutorials. Here is all my parts and some snapshots of the tutorial work.
EG- LED on, pushing button to switch LED's. Light sensor with servo motor also twisting the knob to make the motor blade spin etc..
Some video links:
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gVvIqDpGxw&feature=youtu.be
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHovnx0VGyE&feature=youtu.be
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEFXqosWoE&feature=youtu.be

My different iterations..

Here are my shapes that I instance in my animation:

New/ more textures/photos

Update

Here a snapshot since I cant upload videos to blogger. This is just shown me applying different textures and bump maps to my object and also blending between textures. At this stage I've got the basic movements of my object/s and transitions between particle shape changing. 

Update..

Just an update I still can't upload SWF videos to my blog so I'll just snap shot some photos of my process.