Thanks John, I have dl'ed your journal. Immediately I have learned some additional tricks I was not aware of previously. Your journal will be helpful until the book I ordered from Amazon.com arrives. Incidently, according to Amazon, Character Animation is out of print. Copies are no longer available. With your journal I am going to take myself back to square one and start learning all over again on how to do the basics. My next immediate quest is to fine tune the cut and paste / edit a string of canned BVH's together.