Quote - None the less I am not know as a finisher. Most of the time I get stuck on some part of a render and never finish it. Even that pirate scene, as far as I'm concernered, wasn't finished. It needed a good 12 renders to get the lighting set right. That twilight zone scene is stuck at no motion blur. I can get motion blur to work fine in test scenes with other objects, even scenes using the same trash cans. But for some reason I just can't get it in that scene. That swamp scene, probably the heaviest scene I have ever staged; with 7 figures and 11 replicatoprs, is down to quality renders to set lighting. But takes 10-12 hour for a single shot; I have 9 cameras to get shots with. And that is before reposing the figures to render their reaction to the "frog" man.

Now I have a threater interior scene I was working on; not sure if I can track down the name of the artest that made it though. Spent a lot of time with the lighting, but fell apart when I started putting people in seats, my comp started baliking at 5, but that was a different comp. Still, this one starts getting slow at 7.

Often the journey is far more satisfying than reaching the destination. When you reach your destination, the journey's over.

How's that for ancient wisdom? Heh, heh.

I love the journey, the creation process, too. My problem is that if I don't plan on reaching the destination, the journey isn't as satisfying. I'm always starting something that I realize very quickly isn't going to reach it's end, and I have to stop. No destination takes the fun out of it for me.

And about your theatre project. I'm wondering, couldn't the replicator work in creating an audience? Just had another thought! What about creating and posing the character, then exporting as an obj then importing it back into your scene. That should lower the load a bit.