Attached Link: http://brenthomer.tripod.com/truck.mpeg

Ok here is something for everyone to look at this weekend. I did a sample animation to find out if depth of field would get rid of the dots. In a word..yes. However depth of field also has its own problems (I'm not complaining...I swear!!!) to deal with. I assume if I would make the DOF very wide then this would go away but as it stands in this animation I made the DOF pretty small so the artifacts are huge. It almost looks as if the background is on fire (or just has lots of heat waves?). The other artifact I noticed is the way Carrara renders. It periodically takes chunks out of the truck when applying DOF. If I used Raytracing instead of the Hybrid engine, would that fix things? On the positive side, if I just render a still picture then DOF is awesome...it just seems like it doesnt like animations. the link is correct and working...tripod just sucks...and the animation is 1.4megs, 10sec, 30fps BTW: thanks for the story below AzChip...I & a co-worker laughed a lot about that...I swear everyone in production, no matter how big (or small) the budget is, is complaining about the same crap :)