I would be willing to do the crowd AVIs with "the wave" and other additional crowd features (being pretty much just cheering and waving hands in the air, etc, but send ideas my way!). I think that it'd look better having an AVI textured onto a plane rather than still bitmaps, and a bit more exciting as well, and I don't think that it'll effect anything too much because it's only an AVI that has to be played and not actually rendered in real time. If it ends up looking a little corny with just one plane, we could always add several and render AVIs for those to get somewhat of an effect of depth. But then again, you really won't see a clear difference if you have a stationary viewport for the camera in the driver's section. Give me the go-ahead that you've approved of using an AVI texture, and I'll get down to work.
