I did all the 3d work for this in Lightwave 7.5 and rendered it with the trial of Lightwave 9.
With the hypervoxels and volumetric lighting, it took 65 hours to render on a 2.6 Ghz MacBookPro. My output resolution wasn't nearly as high as I'd like, but with render times like that you do what you can.
Final assembly of the video was in FCP.
The whole thing needs a lot of work, still...but it's a start. Next time I'll remember to output my render in individual frames so I don't have to re-render the whole sequence! :-)
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