Enough, already! When I first saw Poser 5 in alpha mode (March of last year), Kupa told me that there would be new animals, and who was doing them. I have other critters by this artist, and they would have been of high quality. HOWEVER, CuriousLabs ran out of money. I don't know how many of you remember that. They had to lay off staff. (I mean it was talked about here... frequently... and we knew who and how many.) If they were like most companies, the free-lance contractors would have been let go before the employees, and priorities would ahve been examined carefully. If you look at how long it is taking Mallenlane and Anton to make a cat, you just might realize that building an animal from scratch isn't trivial, fast, or cheap. Considering that Poser 5 has new people (with textures), new clothes (with textures), and new hair (with textures)... none of which are trivial, fast, or cheap, either... you really ought to count some of the blessings instead of bitching. Look at how much a single figure from DAZ costs and determine what an entire family would set you back. (And DAZ is extremely reasonable compared to models at Turbosquid! I've seen bad figures there for $800 bucks.) Poser 5 already is a bargain based just on the content. Considering that you guys complain about Judy's face and about the hair and about the lighting and about the rendering time and about how hard it is to learn the program, perhaps it is a good thing that there aren't new animals, or we'd have to listen to you complain about them, too. Carolly