FYI: In a recent post at Daz, Dan Farr, President of Daz, had this to say about DS: "The current alpha version of DAZ Studio actually has a lot more built in functionality then what the interface shows. It has an animation engine an other functionality that the interface will be accessing in the very near future. We also have parallel development going on with a flash renderer, toon shaders, auto update technology, sophisticated posing and animation tools, cloth tools and many other really fun and useful tools. We also are developing pluggin portals to other 3D apps such as Lightwave and Carrara (both pluggins are past the 80% mark of completion). Although the course so far has been long, I expect that getting to this first alpha release was the largest and most time consuming portion. Things should move much more rapidly from here on out. Our internal and external development staff has increased significantly over the past few months and will continue to increase in the next few months and over time. Things will really take off as we get to the point where we can release our SDK to outside developers. We all have seen how powerful this community is." -jjsemp