Attached Link: http://kenzden.web.aplus.net/movies/testpiece.zip

OK, after 4 months of "found" free time spent putting this sucker together, I finally have it to the point where I consider it "satisfactory." Not there aren't things that I wish could change, but I feel that this is a worthy test of things that will be included in my final product. I now know what Brian Taylor went through on his own. There are so many things that just need to worked on in order to get the right feel of the animation and that just takes time and testing. Next in the project? Set Design! The website for this is delayed due to not finding enough free time to get things in... that and I feel that I have to redesign the look of it. I'm just try to get enough bandwidth to accomodate a flow of downloads and for that I had to rely on a hosting site rather than my ineffectual DSL line (ineffectual in that it only has a 128K upload speed: This is MUCH better!). Animation modeled and rendered wholly in Carrara Studio 2. Texturing is mostly procedural, but Image maps were created using PSP 7.0. Editing and effects done in Premiere 6.5. Music courtesy of me, through Acid Music 3.0, and various sound effects from assorted free sites. Enjoy! Ken 

Sorry, Should have posted, requires DIVX 503 to play. AVI only, so I make profuse apologies to MAC users. Ken

Works on Macs (at least under OS X) with the Videolan Client: http://www.videolan.org/

Works on this Mac, also, thanks to the url that dogbreath gave.

nice animation. Like the eyes on the 'bot. Looking forward to the next installment.

Attached Link: http://kenzden.web.aplus.net/movies/testpiecemov.zip

OK, for Buijon I've translated the piece into MOV sorenson 3, but it inflated the size over double what DIVX did. I guess maybe I should invest in a QT license as the encoders I have seem to suck.... MOV format- File zipped in winzip 8.0 - Filesize 16MB!!! Ken 

Wow. Great job, great look. Nice use of various camera positions.

Nice job cckens! I couldn't get the Divx to open past the intro either, Mov worked fine. Looking forward to seeing more!

Very nice animation! I couldn't get the AVI file to play through completely either. The picture stop after about 15 seconds while the sound played to the end. The MOV might be 16MB but it played completely.

BTW, your work just inspired me to buy Acid Music 3.0; just got my online receipt. Well done for sure. Can you actually create/compose music with it or merely overlay tracks and effects? The price was right for sure and I needed something (don't have anything for audio); seeing your clip was all the push I needed. Can't wait to see more.