I have viewed some nice animation produced with P5, but have not tried animations. here is a link to a good , might ask this person, also little Dragon uses P5. As far as "bell and whisles" I like them, I use the material every time I use P5. I have P5 on 3 machines, the slowest being a P111 with 1 gig of ram. Both Pentium 4 runs circles around the P111.