The problem is that you aren't very good at using Poser. Not that I'm complaing or anything. You have no clue about how to set up the shadows. Select the lights and increase the Map Size to get rid of that shadow problem. Not that I'm complaining or anything. The problem with the joints is one that everyone has when bending them this far. They aren't made for that. You need to create morphs for the joint areas so that when you do bend them like this. You can compensate for it. But I doubt you are capable of that. Not That I'm complaining or anything. You can also adjust the jp's so that this type of bending looks a little better. But the figure won't look very good when standing up. But you probably are too stupid to do that too. Not that I'm complaining or anything. You could have posted a pic of this without all the JH B.S. Not that I'm complaining or anything. ScottA