Well, as an animator (here's where animators FINALLY get an advantage on R'Osity ... wheee!) I can truly say what I do is art. (Not saying that still artists' work here isn't!) By the time I'm done a movie, I've put more artistic talents into it than I care to mention. Okay, if you really want to know ... well let's see: - Write a script. - Act. - Do voice-over work. - Set-up environments, lights, camera moves, and ANIMATE figures, objects, etc. - Composite. - Add special effects. - Edit. - Do sound design: soundfx, mix music, etc. - Encode it. OKay, that's not artistic at all, but it still can require a lot of your time to get right. It's hard enough completing an animation, if I had to model and texture-map everything too, I'd NEVER get anything done!! I think if one project sucks an 6 months to an entire year out of your life to complete, shouldn't that count for something too! Don't you? :) -Tim