Reborn is the first movie I have ever made. It was made using MovieStorm software. MovieStorm is a complete animated movie creation package that enables one person to create sophisticated animated movies. You can find more information on the MovieStorm About Page.­

It was created as an entry into the MovieStorm - Domestic Drama 01 competition. Because I was trying to show off MovieStorm I made the decision to NOT use external programs for editing or post production. The only external programs that I used were GIMP, for creation of some of the images in the picture frames, and Audacity, for audio cleanup. Otherwise, the entire movie including the final cutting was done with MovieStorm.

I was fortunate to have a friend, Matt Fitzgibbons, who has written two great albums, Patriot and Patriot 2, with songs that fit perfectly with the movie. Matt was gracious enough to let me use his songs in Reborn. You can find Matt's albums at PatriotMusic.com.

The entire movie was created on a single Dell laptop with the following specifications:

• Dell Inspiron 6400
• 1.83 GHz Intel processor
• 2 GB ram
• Windows XP
• NVidia GeForce Go 7300 w/ 256 MB Video Ram
• 80 GB Hard drive
• 1280 x 800 15.4" LCD screen
• Logitech USB-based headset with microphone

The final version of the movie was rendered at 1280 x 720 pixels and 25 fps (frames per second).

The entire production took about 80 hours to complete - start to finish.