Aye, I had considered painting the characters in, with Painter completely... Poser isn't impossible for me, I just loathe using Other People's Models. Gog, I have Rhino, Amorphium, and Lightwave 7, although I couldn't model a goddamn thing in Lightwave if my life depended on it. I've read many, many tutorials, but have no basic idea how Modeler works yet. I'll keep trynig to get something workable in Poser, I have a definite idea what the Aiel will look like and what Rand and loial would look like... Here's a pic of an Aiel, one of the desert-ninja-warriors... (not by me, from the WOTart website)