I searched the forums and here are the threads thus far…
In perusing the (Amazing!) Bauer website, I stumbled upon some older content which listed their primary skills:
Flash (duh, you knew this one I’m sure)
Real3d(i don’t know if this is theoretical skill or a program or what)
Lightwave 3d
Softimage
Now, I don’t know a whole lot about these programs, but I did a little research and they are pretty high end. Go to their appropriate websites and you’ll see a LOT of movies, tv cartoons/shows, and other media use this stuff to animate. I didn’t see ANY reference to After Effects (although I’m sure it could attain a similar effect?)
Here are the issues I’d like to learn from the site
Obviously this stuff is bitmap intensive bc there’s no way this stuff is vector-based. How do they keep the filesize down? I think the entire site(from what I could gather out of my cache) is around 1.5 Mb. On that note, do they pretty much eliminate a low-band (56k modem) market? Also, the images are pretty **** crisp… second to none in my opinion. Even
Billy Bussey’s Website isn’t THAT clean and crisp and his is downright amazing.
Let’s talk it up peoples 
This is the direction I’m sure many would like to learn how to move in the web!
