All of the animation and rendering was done in Poser 6 & 7.  All the effects and post work was ironed out in After Effects and Premiere.  In an attempt to keep render times and file sizes down I rarely did camera work in Poser i.e. zooms, camera shakes, steady pans ... that way i could flatten the background and green screen my animated figure ... then composite the two together in AE ...  I tried to animate as little as possible in Poser ... I more or less took rendered images from Poser and animated them in AE.  My advice to any 3D animator is to invest in a great post production software (like After Effects) and learn as many compositing tricks as you can ... it will save you time and open you up creative-wise ... The sound track and foley work was done in Pro Tools with korg keyboards and whatever else was lying around that I could bang on ... In terms of sound ... pitch shifting was the key element ... the rotating chamber in the beginning was my electric pencil sharpener pitch shifted down two octaves :)   ...   I would encourage anyone to mess around with pitch shifting to achieve some interesting sound effects ... stay tuned ... this was simply an overture to the main show ... you're gonna love what's coming next
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