Thanks for the link. You can bet I'll visit Lynda.

I'll be going over to 3DBuzz for training as well, starting backwards, of course! Lighting and Render. 

As soon as I downloaded the trial of Max, Autodesk began to feed me training links, also. My son won't be loading his full Max until he gets a his new laptop situated, so I went for the 1-month trial of Max.

Actually, the frame above is both wrong-shaped, oversized and over-resolved for animation, so it is not exactly a 'fair' test of what I'll be doing. But hell, I figure use a tough example!  Render time about 876 seconds for the above, as there are agressive settings.

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