i know i post alot of noob threads i am sorry. but is bryce 5 capable of making a short animated movie?

ummm....yes.....if it's very small. The only limit is the render time. If you will be making a long animation (more than 5 seconds) then I would suggest rendering at only a 170 - 240 pixel width, and take the frames per second down to 8. A good strategy is to render short clips, add sounds, and then string them all together will some video editing software (there's a lot of freebies out there)

Yes it is. What do you want to know about animating exactly?

I made one animation of 96 seconds using Bryce 3D and a 300MHz AMD. I rendered a lot of different scenes and stitched the rendered bits together with some video editing software. I made another one of almost 5 minutes with 2 friends, but it's not fully bryce and rendered on an AMD 1800+. I modelled a bit in Amapi and the scenery is live video, but it looked nice according to the people who saw it. (personally I think it looked crappy) I rendered the animations a a res of 768x576, because they needed to be put on video tape later. For animations the main rule is: keep things simple. Complex scenes are going to take forever to render. The professional 4K resolutions are no option in bryce unless you don't mind waiting for your render for several years.

Also, you may get way with turning anti-aliasing off during an animation.

well there is a music video contest out there for mw4 and i want to enter. however its has to be a scripted even and i have no good way to record ingame footage. so now i am forced to create my own scripted even out of a 3 proggie n only one i got that is bryce 5 :)

Render away. If you have a fast cpu, make a few 10 minute clips and put them together. if you have several computes you can put on a network, make a half hour clip. its your call. The more transparents and volumes you use, the longer it takes, but bryce doesn't have a hard limit. Its up to your equipment.

I made a simple animation - one mountain, one ground plane, one moving cloud layer. The animation ran for 10 seconds and took over 24 hours running on two 866 MHz computers. It looks really good (considering my ability) and it was worth the time. Pixar has nothing on me for rendering time when it comes to Bryce.

thanks for all the reply's ill really look into it even it if does take a week to render hehe

heh. make a good one, hit the render button, and go on a vacation and put a lock on the computer...LOL