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OMG it's 4.10am and my animation is still rendering :( i still have to put all my mocies together and add music. Then at 8.20am get up and walk in to uni for a 4 hour lecture in which a very tired me will present my animation.

It's all been going wrong here. My 'copy' of premiere has funked up it won't let me use the mpeg 4 codec that i have to use. Now using virtual dub to put them together but this means no fading transitions :( . One of my renders failed twice which means i have to leave it out.

My presentation is a critical review of my project so far. (so far it's looking shoddy) They are going to rip me apart :( i mean yeah the smoke and the lighting rocks but cause of teh transitions i'm screwed. I was on a first for the project so far now this is going to bring me down to like a 2.1 then i just gotta hope the final version gets me another first.

My brain hurts. I have learnt that 3d animation is too unstable to leave to the night before. Theres a lesson there kidds.

If i get the time tomorrow i will post a link to my animation. It's only 30 seconds and it's for a bbc-i channel Spark. Which i happen to do student stuff for.

Well off to finish it all. Had a rant feel abit better head hurts though.

my website [URL]http://chippxero.tripod.com[/URL]

Hm, why are all wmv's coming out in crappy wrong colours... need a codec I think

Its strange how addictive 3d modelling programs are. When you start something it's often hard to stop and the next few weeks are used up playing on them.

About 2 days...I find it most fun to toy with.

Here's a quick edit (with snazzy transitions!) of my best stuff so far: [URL]http://www.threecircles.co.uk/images/reely_crap.wmv[/URL]

Thats pretty good, how long you been using this program now? you seem to have got the hang of it quickly.

[URL]http://www.threecircles.co.uk/images/spaceship.wmv[/URL]

More Toy Story than Star Wars, but I'm getting there...

I downloaded Bryce 5 (as seen in Star Wars: Revelations!) to try it out, and it's so easy to pick up. Definitely buying an official copy now.

What did you use for that monkey_man?

It's ace.

i render uncompressed avi then use Premiere and out put it as a wmv, normaly very small file size with alot of the quality.

[URL]http://www.threecircles.co.uk/images/robo_flash.html[/URL]

EDIT: (was a 228k .MOV, but that wouldn't work, so now it's a 2.2Mb swf! Anyone any ideas why the .MOV wouldn't work - it works fine here)

One of my first attempts, only 6 seconds, but you get the idea.

What's the best way to render into a movie? I used Quicktime with MPEG4 encoding, set at 50% quality and 30fps.

48 twunting megs?? CODECS SIR!!! CODECS! :D