Adrian Bold

Crikey! that description of setting up your animation reminds me of the early days when i was using a software package that had zero animation ability, though it had a real-time engine:

To appease the client I had to buy a top-notch video camera, pci board, a gpu card that supported dual monitor, multiple hard-drives (when the largest capacity was some 15gb) firewire port; (a time when firewire was unheard of) setup the video camera as a second monitor, move through my scene using the mouse extremely slowly whilst recording the dualscreen output on the camera to miniDV tape, then once recorded, import all the tape(s) footage back to the computer as a video file (gigabytes!) into an early version of premiere, speed the footage up by 1000% to get it to a reasonable walking speed and allow for some post effect/title work to add polish.