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Jay! Why does your robot's head shoot off to into the void whenever I move the whole body around?! It's downright wacky!

I'm stripping the robot down piece by piece trying to learn it's secrets.

Oh, but don't you doubt it, this Robot Challenge is still most definatly on.

Waiting is the hardest part

Waiting for these freeking images to render is a pain. You take ten minutes to adjust the camera, move some polygons around, click "batch render" and wait overnight for like 80 frames of animation. I guess this is how its done. Jay is there a better way?

Right now I'm exporting individual .jpg frames, and then popping them in as a sequence in After Effects. Seems like the way to go.

What's the method to your madness?

Update: Robot Wars

I've got my set fully constructed now, and have discovered the larger = slower. Layers are a godsend, allowing me to keep things organized. Lighting has also been a learning experience... you think everthing will work a particular way, and when you render the frame, it looks like crap.

I've rendered my first test scene, and 120 frames took all night to render! Insane!

I've layed out my story board, and it looks like I'll have 10-15 small scenes altogether, so I'll be leaving my desktop on for the next week or so.