This 3D-animation was the major part of a presentationfilm made for HMS' product Anybus. A device that can communicate in most industrial programming languages. It therefore reduces the need for different computers for each industrial robot. Or something like that...
The film was shown during the "Hanover Trade Fair" which is one of the biggest fairs in the world.

In this quicktime I've removed everything that is "analog" in the film - videoshots of cars being automatically being spraypainted. The quicktime begins with the spinning logo of the Anybus and jumps to just before the camera flyes "into" the boxes that controls the paintingmechanisms.

To view another 30 sec. quicktime of different logos spinning around the Anybus logo click here.

Everything in the animation except the starfield is made by me. In fact, the cards flying around are exact replicas of the actual Anybus cards. When I look back on the project I realise they didn't have to be all that similar to the real cards. I measured and modeled them within millimeters compared to the "real thing". Anyway, I modeled and animated the whole thing with NewTek Lightwave 3D versions 4 and 5 on different Pentium machines. It was put together on a Pentium Pro with a Perception PVR card.