Of such roadblocks, the primary source was undoubtedly attempting to better learn physics simulations within Blender; as my 3D experience has been almost entirely self-taught, I had to consult a variety of tutorials to get the lantern and chain to move as I wanted them to, and often encountered situations where my current method would not support something required, and thus had to learn a new method and adapt what I had to it - for example, I had been using a soft body method for the chain until I tried to animate in a new control point for it being grabbed - something not supported by soft bodies - at which point I had to spend a fair bit of time looking around until learning to use & convert to a cloth simulation method instead, to say nothing of the implementation time.

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Audio

Though I was still somewhat new to it, sound creation was a relatively more straightforward process; though I was only able to think of foley ideas somewhat spontaneously, it went much more smoothly in terms of actual implementation, and was able to pick up some general notes about recording sound to synchronize with film along the way.

 

Given that all of the audio sources in the video were fairly natural, I was able to create all of the sounds I needed by simply recording objects from around the house, and sound editing was generally minimal beyond adding basic pitch and reverb adjustments. To list a few, I found that squishing a block of tofu made fairly good fleshy sounds, breaking peanuts in a mortar & pestle worked for creating crunching and breaking sounds, and I ultimately discovered that a keychain with many parts to it, with two sides rotated in opposite directions, was a plenty good way to imitate a much larger chain lowering something down.