Attached Link: http://members.tripod.com/brenthomer/anime1.avi

Ok I want to say that I am very dissappointed about having to animate motion blur by object and by hand...That has to be a HUGE killing blow to the stuff I would like to start doing for my clients. I guess I can do a work around by running it thru after effects with a "light burst" plug in but that is less then ideal. There has to be a way to make this work. I guess technically I could save my scene and then relight it all in lightwave and render it at work but I hate lightwave. BUT - enough crying for now. Here is my first ever animation/project..its very simple and I prob should have taken more time to set it up, but like all newbies, I want it now!!! :) Things I noticed: 1) I saw on the Carrara mailing list someone posted a water tutorial yesterday..I should have checked it out. My water hardly moves at all, but I guess thats why I made this animation..to see how things work. 2) Tweening: I never noticed it until I saw it in the manual while rendering frame 100 of 335...to bad, but I know for next time :) 3) The fog...you'll see it :) lol, I need to know why when I put it on land it wont render, but when I dragged it away it was fine? Its been killing me trying to make it work correctly. 4)Rendering options. Next time ill do the light transparncy stuff, and I plan on trying one with the raytracer instead of the hybrid render. I plan on animating more elements like the sky. As it stands its a post apoctayptic movie :) My next project will be a nice scene and the sky animating from day to night then back to day. I have to get a feel for how it animates the overall scene. I will say to those who are thinking about doing animations...just do it..you'll make tons of errors but the payoff is awesome! There is a MAJOR shortage of talent in the video industry in 3d. This animation may be simple but with a few more lights, nicer moving water, and the main subjectreplaced with a logo, this could animation could be 1k in my pocket :) The video industry isnt as picky as people make it out to be..you just need to know the right people :) Well off to work and off to figure out how to animate motion blur more efficently :) PS..its a cinpac avi (works on mac & pc..just checked at work) and its about 4megs...good luck and let me know what you think (considering what I said above :)