Attached Link: Star Trek: Aurora

Part 4 has extensive use of a motion capture system for the movements, but is otherwise largely edited/animated Poser; rendered in Cinema 4D. (Parts 1-3 were animated mostly by hand in Poser.) I outline my current workflow on the Production page of my site.

(Anyone familiar with Aurora might consider checking out parts 1-3 again as there have been a few changes, most notably the addition of music.)

--Tim

It looks absolutely great, the motion capture sequences makes the characters really come to life and the addition of music helps to create the mood for the scenes. The story is also getting interesting, unfortunately we have to wait a while to see what will happen.

Looking forward to the next installment

Wim

Yay!!!!! I was just wondering when we'd see more of this. Back after watching....

Excellent! I don't know how you have the patience to do all this, but I'm glad you do. ;)  Looking forward to the continuing story!

I had to admit I didn't understand the scientific explanation of what the world happened to her. He hee.

How did I miss part 3?...;) Off to go see.

Totally awesome.

 Why do I forsee some....dismay....when Ensign Carpenter finds out from Captain Carpenter exactly what happened to =her= family....?

Nice turning of the screws, Tim....... >8)=

And you were so right about the extra panache that the mocap added. Optitrack moves yet higher on the must have list..... :/

For some reason, I think that there's going to be some kind of romance between Randy and Cara.
dph

Thanks for the heads-up on this, and for the higher-res downloads of the earlier episodes. It's really progressing well and the motion capture adds an extra dimension - the look of this episode reminded me a bit at the beginning of the "New Captain Scarlet" series, if you've seen that.

And it wouldn't be a Trek episode without a piece of technobabble, as TheOwl has already mentioned...

Tim sets the standard of Poser animations with his "Aurora".
I've re-downloaded all parts including the new part 4 and re-watched it through.
This is truly a work of art with story telling and  animation of the highest standard that sets the bench mark for other Poser animators to aim for.
I can only hope that all budding Poser animators will study this production ....there is so much to learn from this film.

Great work Tim.

Best
Dave