You can view the final AVI from the link below to see what you can achieve from this tutorial. But weather its an Apache or a stealth bomber then this tutorial shows you so much more and will help you understand so many different techniques that you will need throughout your time as an animator. Here `sa what the tutorial covers: - Setting up animation preferences - Rigging the rotors using custom attributes, expressions and deformers - Rigging rest of the chopper - Animating the chopper using motion path and hand keying - Using playblast - Creating and animating hand-held camera using hand keying, custom attributes and expressions - Lighting the scene using (HDR) image based lighting - Rendering with Mental Ray and final gathering - Creating an environment for the animation - Rendering ground shadow pass - Projecting ground texture - Adding mountains to the background - Creating cg sky using envSky - Baking animations - Render layers - Saving motion information and post motion blurring - Compositing with Digital Fusion - Color corrections - Z-Depth effects (fog, dof) - Overview on how to use sprite particles - Adding heat distortion and exhaust smoke