Quote Originally Posted by samsc
animating models this way isnt really very good in catalyst- its not a very efficient use of models.
models tend to be huge - much bigger and more unwieldy than movie files.

and the modelling application is sooo much better at editing, and rendering-

why do you need it to happen live?
why not render off line to a movie???
if you had a loop of 20 300k model poses it would take up 6Mb or so , not that huge.

I thought live was the whole point. Most of my work is prerendered, but ocassionally I do need to throw together a few looks for some ambient visuals with no pre-production, I think a few animated figures, would be more interesting to play with than a cardboard cut out forest.

Also I think the more possibilities included in software tools, the more amazing creative things video designers will find to do with them beyond what was originally envisaged.