I just watched the 5min demo video for Vue 5 Infinite. It ROCKS! My credit card is in hand, but what I'ld like to know - 1. How many people worked on this 5 minutes of really great animation? 2. How long did the total project take? 3. What computer platform was it created on? Hardware specifics please. 4. Renering. How long per frame? If on a render farm, how many nodes, (with specs} will I need to re-create such a great project? Outside of TALENT (which I know is alot) what do I need and how long does it take to achive similar results? JP

1. How many people worked on this 5 minutes of really great animation? To the best of my knowledge, one. Philippe Bouyer, otherwise known as Phoul. He uses Vue, Poser, After Effects 6.5 pro, Particle Illusion 3, and off the top of my head I can't remember which audio package. Mesh models were either Poser content (where he does all his figure animating), or provided by others listed in the demo. 2. How long did the total project take? Phoul will have to answer that...but keep in mind that it was done with the beta of Infinite, as the release candidate hadn't gone gold when he was doing it... ;) 3. What computer platform was it created on? Hardware specifics please. 4. Renering. How long per frame? If on a render farm, how many nodes, (with specs} will I need to re-create such a great project? The Infinite RC only had the basic 5 node liscence enabled, so no more than 5 nodes were used. -My- rendergarden's weakest box was an original Athlon 700 with all of 384 megs of PC-100 SDRAM. Something like an Athlon XP 1700 or above, with 512megs of PC-133 or DDR-266 will provide more than enough power, as well as being robust enough to support other distributed network rendering, such as After Effects Pro has. Of course faster chips and more memory bandwidth will speed up the render... Outside of TALENT (which I know is alot) what do I need and how long does it take to achive similar results? Phoul is a cinematographer who was bitten by the CG bug a few years ago. So he came into Vue with a firm grasp of the camera concepts, and professional lighting ideas. He's also one of the few people I know who has apparently grasped all the possibilites of the functions system.

Hello, I am Philippe Bouyer (www.belino.net). I made the show reel...
Dale is right about softwares used. About sound, I made the sound with Nero Wave Edition (tiny and powerful tool), SmartSounds SonicFire Pro (for music), and the final mix was done in After Effect.
I started (created) almost all clips on my PIII 1ghz 512 ram. My 2 others PC (two P4 near 3ghz, 1g ram) make the renders.

As always Dale, I have to tell you thank you very much for your friendly support.
Best regards.

Phoul - I just sat through the Video and thought it was amazing. I don't have sound connected to my computer cause it annoyes me, but for this I pulled it all out and hooked it up.....it was amazing. Great job and I noticed you dedicated it to Guitta....applause all around. Thank you and thank you for honoring Guitta.....I am sure she is smiling. Sharen

We miss her so much. :-(

Phoul. Thanks for this Master Video and tanks to jou that you have dedicated it to Guitta . It is a placer to see whe have not forgot Guitta , and manny mis her ,and the advice. Buy you did a graet job. THANKS many many. Rob. Bouchier