This weekend was spent putting Emily Maddison in 3D space. She now pulls out at a junction and drives down a street. Her car moves on seven independent layers and, as she turns, light is cast on the right side of her car. It's a technical marvel. Not since the "bullet time" scenes in The Matrix have people been so blown away by visual effects like these. In addition to this the individual pores on Emily's skin (not to mention her hair - which incidentally took a team of 20 artists 3 months to animate) means it takes a 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon powered computer with 16 GB of RAM 15 minutes to render out the final scene which is just 20 seconds long; adding £600,000 to the budget on render time alone.

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