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-CG Animations -
These are all the 3D animations that appear on our web site.
To view them, Right-click their icon and either "Open Link" to play or save to your HD using "Save Target As" and play later.
Click here to see our custom GIF animations

The following are more entertaining videos with sound.

Lost in Space Robot
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"B9"
The Lost in Space Robot

Model Location: Here
File size: 3.8MB MPEG 1
Length: 1 minute 2 seconds
Description:
The Robot is aboard the Space Ship Jupiter 2 and feels a bit neglected with an attitude.

Robot voice and background music/effects are bites from the actual series.
Prius Jump
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"Heavenly Jump "
Toytoa Prius Hybrid

Model Location:
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File size: 8MB MPEG 1
Length: 1 minute 16 seconds

Description:
The Toyota hybrid car attempts a high-speed jump over a Honda Civic and gets a surprise in the end.

Thanks to HarpSong and the Ramones for the music tracks. We created all the crash, bangs and explosions.

Iron Record
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"Iron Record "
Victor Victrola

Model Location: Here
File size: 3.6MB MPEG 1
Length: 1 minute

Description:
The person finds an "Iron record" in his collection, not the usual shatter-prone shellac style and gets a few surprises.

Music for this clip is from a 78RPM record but all other sounds we have created.

Cancer Society
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"American Cancer Society "
Lip-sync render test

Model Location: Here
File size: 3MB MPEG 1
Length: 25 Seconds

Description:
This character was created exclusively for testing lip movement to speech synchronization but ended as a funny fake ad for the Cancer Society..

Sound is by Cheech and Chong and modified by us.

The following are silent videos we created for experiments and various purposes
Star Trek Enterprise
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"Inspection tour "
Star Trek Enterprise

Model Location: Here
File size: 5.7MB MPEG 1
Length: 40 Seconds

Description:
Large 720x480 render created while the model was under construction to test textures and geometry.

Note that some surfaces are not properly textured at this point of creation..

Star Trek Shuttle craft
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"Beginning the trip "
Star Trek Shuttle craft

Model Location: Here
File size: 1.4MB MPEG 1
Length: 9 Seconds

Description:
Large 720x480 render created to test the effect of traveling "Through space" in a star field.

The animated engine "Intakes" are exported from the finished Enterprise engines.

Train
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"Engine inspection "
Steaming locomotive

Model Location: Here
File size: 3.8MB WMV
Length: 43 Seconds

Description:
This was created to test steam and smoke blowing from several chosen places around the model, and also to try a 1st attempt at human animation.

(Which explains the guy's odd movements)

House tour
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"Interior inspection "
Split foyer house

Model Location: Here
File size: 2MB MPEG 1
Length: 9 Seconds

Description:
This is a fast-paced, very short clip as the camera pans across the living room, dining room, kitchen and back.

It plays very quickly and we recommend to set your player to repeat if possible.

Garage room pan
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"Room gazing "
Planning a room renovation

Model Location: Here
File size: 1.7MB WMV
Length: 20 Seconds

Description:
We converted our garage into a recreation room and this was one of the design considerations.

Given the fact that we hadn't modeled any of the doors yet suggest an early render of the project.

Tornado
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"Tornado "
Made for a shelter animation

Model Location: Here
File size: 3MB MPEG 1
Length: 19 Seconds

Description:
This is our creation of a really big storm.

It could have been made much better but this is where our project ended for this.

B25 Landing sequense
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"B25 Bomber "
Landing sequence

Model Location: Here
File size: 4.6MB MPEG 1
Length: 13 Seconds

Description:
We created this large 720x480 render to test wing-tail control surfaces, landing and bomb bay door operation as well as wheel strut movements and lighting tests.

It landed without crashing and no bullet holes.

Lost in Space landing
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"Lost in Space Jupiter 2 "
Landing/take-off sequence

Model Location: Here
File size: 2.5MB MPEG 1
Length: 33 Seconds

Description:
We created this to test the effect of using Morph maps to control the landing gear.

Later we added the robot who drops from above and speeds off.

Zenith Phono Cycling
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"Zenith Phono demo "
"blade" style phono demo

Model Location: Here
File size: 1.7MB MPEG 1
Length: 21 Seconds

Description:
This was done as a challenge to demonstrate how the old style blade style phono's stacked and separated records.

Two records make the stack, are played and cycled through.

Zenith Phono drawer
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"Zenith Phono demo "
"blade" style phono demo

Model Location: Here
File size: 950KB MPEG 1
Length: 11 Seconds

Description:
This animation shows how the phono drawer swings out of the Zenith console, then back in.

Nothing really Earth-shattering.