TBH there is no need to add bends, they just need to play with the settings of the rig!
Mojang and other animators have shown us it is possible!
But yeah trying that in real life would cause serious pain.
Yeah the leaves lighting isn't that great, my only guess to fixing that would be to manually implement re textured blocks to replace em!
And as for the lightning, I have an idea in mind!
No matter if you live in a mud hut, a cave, ravine, mineshaft, tree, etc. Once you place the furnace next to the chest and crafting table, you can call that a home, as long as you don't die and have to either find a new place to live or if it is only momentarily . . .
This type of artstyle is unmatchable!
keep up the great work!
(hopefully people were willing to give us tutorials on how to do such masterpieces, big and smol!)