The 4th Party, Owning Poser (any version) won't be necessary to take advantage of DAZ Studio. In the Beta stage this might be the case to solidly test functionality, however, long term wise, this application is meant to be able to stand on its own legs and run... either side by side with other applications or, as modules are built for it, to stand on it's own. Someone previously mentioned .FBX (Kadarra Filmbox format; now known as MotionBuilder) in this thread. I have talked with DAZ about this and briefly with Taylor Wilson and I can tell you that Taylor is very familiar with Filmbox/MotionBuilder and with MoCap data (since he has worked with House of Moves and has experience with Vicon Motion Systems in the past. So yes, animation tool is being thought out and will likely occur. Jack