If I had a nickle for every time a programmer said something was straightforward but took forever and a day to implement it... ...I could afford Lightwave. If this free toy supports 3rd party plugins or even scripting it will be worth it. I suspect a fair number of scripts and plugins will come along and DAZ can sell these as brokered products without a massive price tag. Simple Key-frame Animation is not that big a deal. The key frame editor is just an interface anyway. Animation is just automated posing and picture taking. If poser didn't have animation but had better python scripting a good programmer could write a script in one day (I sound like a programmer now)to make it animate. Yes it would be horrible to use but what would you expect for a days labor. Its really not too big a deal particulary if your willing to make do with linear interpolation. Whatsmore the math on the "curved" interpolation in poser isn't that complicated (I really sound like a programmer now). In any case I'd trust the small independent programmers to get this stuff out much quicker than DAZ would anyway. this might just be the gift we all wanted afterall if it evergets here.