Cool, intresting article.
Anyway I have began the animation process and the first 850 frames have been batch renderd. Batch rendering was hell because I had to do it 3 times!!!!! When I batched my scene the first time I renderd it out as JPEG imadges but when I imported those into quicktime it was terrible quality The second time around I renderd my scene as TGA imadges but when I imported that into quicktime it was 250mb!!! Finally I chose PNG imadges and that gave me very good quality at a nifty 50mb
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