Hey floyd, nice animation you have going on there.. It would be awesome to see this exanding even more into maybe a building or object of your design!

Great improvements on learning max ^^ i will have to look into this as well!

Thanks simon, good luck with the tutorial.

Here is an update: added some more stuff. --> http://vimeo.com/3718414 

 Cool animation, very smooth! Good job :)

I did something similar, based on the same tutorial a while ago. I don't have 3ds max so i did it in anim8or. over the course of a few weeks i did this:

it's not nearly as easy in anim8or as in Max but it worked quite well. yours looks pretty good.

Cool concept floyd, was it based on karates though?

It's always confused me how you got such a huge building from one box, were the other faces just inside the first few faces?

Thanks tanzim. No it wasn't based on karates work, but it seems we have followed the same tutorial ;).

All the objects are inside the beginning object and unfold on specific moments. Look at the tutorial link that i posted above (^) for more information about how to do this. 

I like the beginning where the box falls and bounces. it looks a whole lot better thgan my attempt.