i was told, it's great for animations, Mason, but it works more effectively with less poligons than poser does. although it does not import any work from poser (afaik only dxf files) poser work yould just crash tho whole programm, because the files are way to big. depending on what you are trying to do, there are many great tutorials out there on creating a photorealistiy human character with AM, and the rendering engine is absolutely great. Sad to say there is no trial version :-) I'm considering purchase of AM but i still want to try the prog first, and i did not yet have the chance to tell me if you know more -Ede