Voodoo is an excellent 3d card one of the best, Diamon, ATI, are all good cards at the amature/semi profesional level. I would recomentd Voodoo, and yes some 3D accelerators will help improve your 3D animation though most are aimed at gaming. How do you find your system handles the ram. I currently have 64megs but am thinking upgrading between 128-384, but of course I also need a new hard drive and more software so, I am wondering if I should go with lower or higher. do you find 128 is enough.