Attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-yVNQeXbg

This is a short preview of my latest animation showing the result of rendering an animated sequence as a series of jpg images and compiling in Flash rather than letting Poser render the animation. The original frame size is 800x480 reduced to 600x360 in Flash. The detail holds up very nice and render time is not significantly affected. Scenes with this many models and level of detail would have choked my machine to death if I'd let Poser do the animation.

Nicely done.  Thanks for sharing your technique.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Thanks, Doc. It's my pleasure.

Here's a still frame for anyone who can't get to YouTube. The background is a photograph composited with some of Mercado's Jungle vines and Lisa Buckalew's ferns and day lillies. The backgound is animated, rendered out, then applied behind Michael3 and the Freak, both wearing LM's Marauder Armour, Torsis' Eldar backpack, Ajax's Space Helmet, Mogadeet's Snake Pliskin and Arnold face morphs, and AprilYSH Ivandri and Rievel hair. Mike's gun is from Geodesic and Freaks gun is something cobbled out of bits and pieces. That scene is rendered out and applied behind some more of LB's plants and Beanstalk and then that's rendered out and applied behind some more plants. The frame size is 800 x 480. If I'd let Poser do the animation, I'd be waiting half the day for the first layer and I would probably get an out on memory error. By rendering out in JPG, I can load my scenes with details, avoid the horrible pixillation from Poser's avi compression and still have a 180 frame scene finished in a few hours.

VERY FINE animation!  The walking-through-jungle part is absolutely
indistinguishable from reality.

Thanks, ockham. The walk animation itself is just a stock P5 walk cycle.

Hi skuts,

Excellent video.
At the end of the your video, the green monitor showing the movie of a moving insect.
May I ask how could you play the movie inside poser?

Thanks in advance
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I took the avi of the previous scene of the monster munching on the dead carcass and used it as a texture on the screen.

Thanks a lot, skuts.
:D

I just stumbled onto this post and I must say that the animation is amazing.  Very well done and thought out.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Would like to see more features.

it looks very good IMVHO.  were shadows enabled?  FFRender used?
one other tip: save as series of tiff files to avoid jpeg banding and other jpeg
artifacts, if they become a problem.

There is usually at least one light with shadows on per layer. Render is P4. (Life is short. I can't wait for firefly). I'll consider your advice about the jpgs although they have not been  a problem as yet.