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This film contains:
  • 10,056 frames
  • 1,557 individual pieces of artwork including:
        426 models (43MB)
        809 painted textures (116MB, JPEGs)
        322 scenes (191MB)
  • 21 pre-rendered image sequences (for backgrounds and animated textures) (3,156 frames)
  • 300 dynamics simulation files (.mdd) (760MB)
  • 192 sound effects tracks
  • 450 MIDI tracks (spread across 12 sequences)
During the making of this film:
  • Render times averaged about 3 hours per frame
  • The longest render was about 8 hours per frame 
  • An average of 0.74 seconds of film were completed per week (that's including animation, sound, everything)
  • Roughly 17.5 hours of sound FX were recorded
  • I moved house 6 times
  • I consumed around 3,500 sandwiches
  • A Star Wars trilogy, a Lord Of The Rings trilogy and a Harry Potter trilogy were made (not by me).

Gear List:

     Software:
  • Lightwave 3D 6.5 (animatics, models, animation, lighting, rendering)
  • Painter 5 & 8 (concept art, storyboards, textures, rotoscoping, grading)
  • Adobe Premiere 5.1 (editing, compositing, grading)
  • Cubase SX 1.0 (music, sound fx recording/editing)
  • EWQLSO Platinum (orchestral score)

     Hardware (Visual):
  • Started with: Pentium 133, Matrox MGA Millennium graphics card, 96MB RAM, 1.2GB hard drive, Wacom 6x8 graphics tablet, 15” KTX monitor
  • Finished with: Pentium III 500, Oxygen VX1 graphics card, 384MB RAM, 90GB hard drive, Wacom Intuos 2 8x12 graphics tablet (after electrocuting old one with wrong power adapter), 17” Mitsubishi Diamond View monitor (23” Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB for final post stuff)
  • 2 x Pentium 4 2.8GHz for rendering

     Hardware (Audio):
  • Pentium 4 2.8GHz
  • M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard
  • M-Audio Revolution 7.1 soundcard (for surround mixing)
  • Creative Gigaworks S700 sound system
  • Ensoniq ASR10 sampling keyboard (used for early soundtrack ideas)
  • Yamaha AN1x synthesizer (used as MIDI controller)
  • Sony MZ-R50 minidisc recorder
  • Sony ECM-MS957 microphone

Budget Breakdown (approx) ($AUD)
  • Hardware: $10,000
  • Software: $3,500
  • EWQLSO: $4,467.75
  • 35mm Film Transfer: $4,700
  • Mastering: $1,000
  • Dolby License: $780
  • Living Expenses for 6 years: $40,000
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