I'm not doing animations, but I tend to do Poser scenes with lots of props (the image above is made purely in Poser, including sky, hills, abbey, grass... So there usually is a need to to it all at the same times, to have shadows extending over the right places. Plus I'm a real sucker with PSP and never manage to do multi-layered images that do not pixelise on the edges... Thanks for your help Compiler