oooh, Jaagar, what you say sounds intriguing....SINCE my figure was sitting and facing right, when I applied a standing pose that faced forward, my figure naturally adopted a right facing pose since the body was facnig that way. IF I had rotated the body first...ok, I think I got the idea. I'll need to play with it now. ChristianB, thanks a lot! By going through your notes and experimenting, I actually got a reasonably smooth standup and I did it with no predefined poses, how cool! I am learning. I just got overwhelmed with everything, all the dials, all the movements. Your advice helped extremely. I'll be heading to your site. :) Now, I still can't get the zoom to work. I have my figure stand up, I add a jeyframe, move the marker another 10 frames and "zoom" up with my camera so the head and shoulders are visible. I add another keyframe there. I still get some scene movement from the first frame and I did check to make sure I have plenty of keyframes. For the heck of it, I added a keyframe 10 frames after my final position standing up, then 10 more frames before I did the "zoom" and added a keyframe. Not sure why the unwanted zoom is still happening. I'll continue to play with it. Thanks to all, what a great forum and great people. Steve