LittleB calls this character Jeanie, it is modeled from Igor.

For a full HD size image, click here. After the image opens, click on it to make sure it is full size. Firefox first loads it so that it fits the window, but click the image to make it full size.

The texture on the background is not big enough for this full HD demo, so it looks stretched, but that is easily fixed by using a larger version of the image.

I did an animation. It took about 10 minutes to put together, once I made the character, but it took a whopping 40 hours for my computer to render the just 24 second clip. If Jeanie spoke, I would have to render another copy with a white mouth, making it 80 hours for a 24 second clip. That is just for a a small 600 x 336 pixel clip. Blu-ray 1080p is 1920 x 1080. The 1920 x 1080 still I posted above (full HD) took 18 minutes to render. So let’s see, I’d get about 3 movie frames an hour at 1080P, so it would take about 8 hours to render 1 second of video. This 24 second clip would take 192 hours or 27.4 days to render at full high definition. If Jeanie spoke, it’d be double that. If only I had a render farm…. Well, I do, but it is only 2 computers big making it only twice as fast. Half of 27 days is still pretty unacceptable.

Video: (I have a high quality version which is really sharp, but since it’s over 250mb in size it’s best I post this blurry low resolution 4mb thing)

The lighting system is the daylight system in 3ds Max which is very realistic, but it is slow to render as it calculates all those reflections and shadows.