I looked at Hash Animation Master, and thought it looked great, but I could not afford it at the time - and when I COULD afford it, I got the Poser4/Bryce4/Canoma1 bundle instead... One interesting thing - I heard someone quoting the developer as saying something like he was glad of MetaCreations leaving the 3D market, because Poser was his ONLY real competition for the low-end, quality 3D character creation and animation market!