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Dance Of The Spheres: Test 2

Created by spektyr

While I was doing this one I found out something important about network rendering animations with Lightning. Keep the 'Tile Optimization' option unchecked and let the client systems render full frames. It's a LOT faster! This animation has 128 metaballs in it and we all know how they can increase render times. It took only 2 and 1 half hours to render the 900 300x300 frames of this animation, spread across 6 clients, and take it from me, the Lunatic Animator, that's FAST! The choreography of this animation, setting up the motion of all the metaballs and then ungrouping them so they react to each other, was really tricky to figure out. This is just a test project and is not posted in my gallery. The download link is: http://www.spektyr.com/Animations/DanceTest2.avi Make sure you have the latest Xvid codec. All comments welcome.