Since DAZ's main business is content and the software to drive that content, it would be a great move for them if they released their animation capabilities to the "12 animators" everyone talks about in Poser land. ;) Seriously, though, there has never been any indication that they aren't going to release animation capabilities, but if they didn't, someone else could build a plugin for it, right? One other point, Mimic would be a dead-end program if DAZ|Studio didn't support animation. I don't think they would spend money on animation software and render software separately and then just decide that they don't ever need to work together. It would make much more sense to make the two work together as well as or better than how Mimic and Poser work together today.