Handling an army of UFO’s is one thing, but things become complicated when you want to handle a mass of Bipeds which on top of that are animated !! In this tutorial we’re going to see how to create a crowd of Bipeds in Lightwave 3D (version 6.5 upwards). The subject is a crowd carrying out a linear movement on a flat plane. I used this technique to create a crowd of 500 soldiers in the first trailer of Star Ancetor. In fact its more of a trick than a real crowd simulation, therefore, no question of recreating the crowds of "Retour du Roi" (Return of the King) or even the army of Anubis in "le Retour de la Momie" :) (The return of The Mummy)
Here are the different steps invloved:

1. Create a looping animation of a character running
2. Convert the animation into a morphing sequence
3. Create a crowd movement with Particles FX (PFX)
4. Creating the crowd
5. Final remarques