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	Brainstem is a Poser Character from their default character menu. I exported him from Poser as a DXF and imported him into Blender... then I spent hours separating out each part of him and applying material settings. This shows the amount of detail and how many different pieces make him up. All scenes are completely created in Blender.

This scene shows the initial landing of Brainstem's craft. The whole idea behind this animation is this guy has NO FEAR!... he will land his craft in the middle of total chaos and not blink an eye... All the elements of this scene are completely 3D, right down to the flames which are a texture map on a particle.

This scene shows a close laser blast by the enemy, Brainstem doesn't even worry about the chunks of debris flying from the blast! He is on a mission, a mission to spread the word...

Even as he flashes his bumper sticker to the camera there is another close call by another laser blast.... WOW.. nothing can stop this guy from telling you how he feels....

This was my very first full length animation short. I used IKA's for Brainstem's movement and an animation path for his forward direction. This animation was done right before the release of GameBlender version 2.0. I heard rumor they played this on the large screen displays at Siggraph 2000 for the NAN Blender booth. Click here to download the full animation as a MPG file. It's right around 5.5 meg... FULL ANIMATION DOWNLAOD _______________SysAdm