Behind the Scenes

The project was completed in just under four days, which is very quick for 3D animation. 

I used the newly released version 9.3 of Lightwave; this was my first real project from start to finish since version 6 many years ago. I utilized morph-mixes, bones, some new bone and weight map tools, and the Saslite fur shader.... although at 2AM the day it was due I realized the fur shader was not going to work over my render-farm via Screamernet. So that explains the shiny panda bear.

The final version had my address and phone number; I took that out for the public version which explains the strange jumps. 

I cut the original audio and final animation with Sony Vegas Pro 8.

We burned 20 or so custom-printed DVD's of the film in a lovely envelope designed by Susan. DVDs with animated menu was created with Sony DVD Architect 4.0.