Attached Link: Click to download short animation, 4 MB Quicktime

rendered in Poser7 in Preview mode; rendertime: 4 seconds per frame. Post in After effects.

Notice that that are clever ways to get dynamic cloth AND dynamic hair actuated, even with Preview render!

my two rendering stations are busy for the next few days....so I can't show a GREAT example of stylized realism achieved at less than 10 seconds per frame combined raw and postprocessing time.

This little red dress animation is a "hint" of what I'm shooting for. Probably too much "film grain" but still, I like it. 

Working with this paradigm does several things: it invokes realism as opposed to Toon; it avoids the Uncanny Valley; fast render; no limit to creativity in post processing.

I am sinking into Max v2008 now and plan to really push this idea. I still like Poser and Carrara for it, as well.

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