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Quick Start: Animating a Walking Dinosaur

Tutorial: Rendering the final animation
Once the dinosaur walk looks good in the viewport, you are ready to render the final animation. This is a
process that you can start by specifying the animation format. Once started, Max automatically proceeds
through all the frames of the animation and notifies you when it is completed.
To render the final animation, follow these steps:
1. Select the Render ➪ Render Setup menu to open the Render Setup dialog box.
2. At the top of the dialog box, enable the Active Time Segment so that all 300 frames of the anima-
tion will be rendered. Then set the Output Size to 640x480.
3. In the Render Output section, click the Files button to open a file dialog box. Set the format as
AVI, give the file a name such as Walking Dinosaur, and click the Save button. In the AVI
Compression Setup dialog box that appears, simply select the default and click OK.
4. At the very bottom of the Render Setup dialog box, make sure the Perspective view is selected and
click the Render button.
Max then renders each frame of the animation and shows its progress in a dialog box. When completed, the
final animation file is saved with the filename you entered. You then can locate and play it. Figure QS.8
shows a frame of the final animation.

FIGURE QS.8
The final animation includes rendered results of each frame.

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