"Both import a Poser scene just fine, at frame 1. In both programs I couldn't find how to go to another frame of the .pz3. " In order to see the animated frames from the Poser scene in Shade, here's a quick tut. Please refer to the Shade docs for more explanation: In Shade 1. Select the Poser scene in the Browser palette 2. Open up the Motion Palette View > Motion or Ctrl+Alt+2 on Windows 3. Click on the Sequence and Auto Key checkboxes 4. Click on Settings button to input your animation settings 5. On the Animation graph, move the scrubber to the last frame and then move the object slider up to the end of the Range.