I just downloaded the 26 meg hi res trailer and retreived the Qt movie from my browser cache so i now have my own copy of the trailer to watch whenever i want. i cant wait!!! as far as software used this movie used Maya for modeling and animating and was rendered on a farm of over 95 hi end SGI workstation using the highly scripted renderman renderer. even on this powerful hardware setup the actual rendertime was YEARS!! as an example of the rendertimes involved in animation projects of this nature the first "Toy Story" from Pixar was rendered in parts on a farm of over 100 SUN solaris Enterprise II workstations with custom boards that supported 32 GIGS!! of ram!!! yet the total rendertime was still around 2.6 YEARS!! that means on a SINGLE Machine it would have taken 260 YEARS to render. Alias wave fronts Maya come in three versions i think MAYA-$7000 or so MAYA complete-$10,000 or so MAYA Unlimted- $15-$20,000 this is NOT!!! Software designed for the individual artist it is a special effects highend open source 3D interface for which you hire TEAMS!! of programmers usually on a project by project bases to write the complex scripting code to give it its true functionality Its learning curve is HUGE.!! but as you can see the results well are worth it for a team project Mocap