Well I finally finished this animation. It was probably the most complicated one I have done so far. I was going to post it up but I only have tripod. They arnt so keen on that sort of thing. I have to find someplace that will let me share 5 to 10meg avi's. I am pretty happy with it. Lots of things did not turn out how I wanted them to, but lots of things turned out better than I thought. I thought the CG's looked good and the sound f/xs where nice. This animation was about 270 hours of rendering, split between a p3 500 and an athlon 900. The last sequence with the globe was the real killer...the text map rendered for 72 hours in AE and the 3d section took 180 hours on my athlon. I had to render the tunnel sequnce twice. The first time it was acceptable but after the patch it looked 1,000x better. The new patch made a BIG difference in image quality. Well I have to plan my next animation now. I dont know what it is, but I am thinking of a countdown/slate for my edits..could be fun. Send up your email if you want to see the animation and make room...its like 7megs.