Attached Link: Carrara animation

This is an animation rendering from the Carrara content CD using physics in the animation. I haven't had time yet to really work with Carrara but hope to get going soon. You will see a falling chain bumping a cube off the scene. Its more interesting if you loop the movie. I haven't been on this forum before and am hoping to learn from it.

Message edited on: 10/13/2005 14:46

WOW! I have never been so HAPPY to be totaly wrong. This is my first time on this forum and it's the best thing that ever happened to me lately. Thank you, thank you, thank you, :0) ;)

To give an example: If you do an animation of Michael and put the millennium hair on him the hair does not render in a movie. He still has the unrendered hair in the movie. Maybe I'm missing something? I wish I was wrong.

Fully rendered to me means that all your lighting shadows and all your texture maps, bump maps, etc are rendered in detail as in, when you do a command R or control R.

That of course depends on who your audience is and what purpose you use the movie for. By that I mean, if I am doing animations for a game I save in eight or ten frames because eight frames is a walk cycle.
If I am going to use a movie on a slower computer, I might save it in 15 frames per second. A more powerful computer I would save in 24 or 30 frames. 24 frames per sec is movie film standard and 29.9 or 30 frames per sec is NTSC or television standard. SO, I usually try to match what may work best in any given situation. You have to experiment a bit to see what it looks and feels like. Sometimes it's too fast, sometimes too slow. The less frames per second the faster the animation.
Also just a side note: If you want your animation fully rendered you would render each frame individually, save each frame seperately, and then let quicktimePro put them together as an image sequence and save it as a quicktime movie. Takes a lot of patience and time to do but I don't know how else to get a fully rendered movie. Maybe Poser 5 will fix that?