I've made this tutorial to show you a method for making the bullet-time effect from The Matrix. The idea is to freeze a complicated animation ( in this case an exploading teapot ) but the camera must move around the frozen explosion. The main problem doing this in 3D Studio Max for me is that I don't know how to freeze particle systems. But I've found other solution for this: I've made-it in 3D Studio Max exactly like the bullet-time from The Matrix was created : I've created some cameras around the animation and then I've created one image of a wanted frame from each camera.
First, we are going to create the bullet slug. Create a spline that resembles the one on the picture.
7. Open Video post and add new event named "Bullet time" by pressing "Add scene event" button. In drop down list choose Camera01.