This is shot 01. I’m pushing things now. Needs around 1.5Gigs of Ram and takes 2.5 minutes per frame. I know I could free some memory if I resized some textures, but I only have a couple of shots where you see all the bikes.
I may need to call some friends and borrow their computers to get this all done on time.
More to come 
@mustan9 wow that looks so very nice!!! i cant wait to see the final animation. big thx for the .mat!!!
Thank you. 
I still have not started my crash. Can you tell I’m avoiding it! I hope I’m not going to run out of time.
Some more teasers.
hehe, looks excellent! hope you will finish it before the 22!
the position on the bike for the character in the center, with his hand on the knee is excellent, that s remember me when i ride a bike on little road… 
just one thing on the bike, i make it with PS, better than my bad english…
this part(in green) is really too low, and the size of your tork is not thick enough. the part of the top need more thick.
dont know if you will have the time to re rendering it, but that s a big error for a motorbike, so that s looking strange.
sorry to not saw it before, but something hurts me, and i doesnt know what… now i know…
keep it up!
ps: big thanks for the surface, works good. for me i will not have the time to re render the track i think, so will be for next fxwar.
Yea your right, but I don’t have time to fix it. It’s not really the render time but going back to all those shots and adjusting it, resaving, submitting it to the farm, and editing it back into the video.
I am hoping by the end of tonight to have finished everything except for the final crash. Which gives me the weekend to work on that one shot.
Looks Great, nice renders, i like a lot the Highway concept, the bikes are ok to.
Good Luck.
Well, this has been such a crunch to finish this.
Everything except the crash has been animated and rendered! So that gives me tomorrow to work on the crash.
I’m off to bed! I promised my girl that I wouldn’t stay up late tonight working on this. :rolleyes:
Here’s some more teaser images. Just 3 more days until I published the finished video.
P.S. Is there anyone who is interested in designing a DVD cover and interactive menu for this thing?
EDIT: Stupid me posted the same image twice!
Thanks. Just so everyone knows my entry is based upon a scene from a movie, but I’m going to wait before I say which film because I’d like to know who can guess the name.
Wow! Why is it always at the end you have the most problem. Anyway, I’ve had to render the last 3 shots several times because things keep screwing up. Crashing, target files missing alpha channel, backgrounds being erased, and many others.
Anyway, it’s all finished now. I’m just doing post work such as color correction and some shots required layers.
Will be posting the finished entry most likely tomorrow.
Wow! Great guess!
I was orginally going to do that bike chance from the Matrix. You can see some early images with the girl riding between two trucks.
Sorry, I changed my mind last week when I realized I wasn’t going to have time to do all the cars.
Guess again
I’ll give you a hint. This film features a very cool motorcycle.
It did (the Milla Jovovich one, not the british television one). She switches on some antigrav thing and rides it on the side of a building… anyway. It was very silly.
Entry Catagory: Fantasy Race
Software used: 3D Studio Max, and Combustion
Length: 54 seconds
QuickTime 720x480 (54Megs)
http://www.mathew3d.com/fxwars/MathewFoscarini_FXWARS(720x480).mov
QuickTime 360x240 (24Megs)
http://www.mathew3d.com/fxwars/MathewFoscarini_FXWARS(360x240).mov
Description: My entry takes place during an illegal street race when a renegade pollice officer attempts to stop it (based upon a scene from the 1988 anime film Akira).
Nice entry.
Dont forget to post an 800x 600 title card of your entry for the voting thread.
-R