This is approximately the first 2500 frames of AW anim contest winner short
film, "One Stormy Night with Fred Floaty". It is the tale of Fred, a small
blow-up pool floaty toy, who has aspirations of escaping his dark and cramped
home in a cut-rate travel agent window. It was done entirely in LightWave 2.0,
took nearly 6 months to create and involved a solid 4 months of continuous
rendering. The original motivation for the film was to show off some of the
latest effects I had developed using LightWave which included a spectacular
animated simulation of rain and a pretty darn good pool (IMHO). The animation in
this file has been shrunk down from 24bit 752x480 to 188x120 in 4bit grayscale so that a good sized chunk of the film (a
"teaser") could be shown without consuming gobs of memory. The original files
consumed well over 2.5GB. Author: Mark Thompson