Not true, Mark. If you have Poser 5, or Pro Pack, you can easily apply bones to a figure, and if you make it to the specifications of one of the existing figures, (P4 male & female, Don or Judy etc) and apply that skeleton to your figure, you can use the walk designer. You can also create walk designer files for other figures, but it involves animating the walk cycle at least once. (i think Mike & Vicki can use the walk designer too.) If you're planning on doing character animation, and you already use carrara, poser is the way to go. There are many things you can do with your characters using poser that carrara can't do on it's own. Aside from morph targets (which Carrara 4 can do) Poser also does morphs that affect more than one body part, you can save poses, or partial posessave and re-use animation for all or some body parts, create conforming clothing, and posable props. There's also Poser's own magnet and wave deformers, which are extremely useful for modifying and animating organics and cloth. (There's also the hope that transposer will be updated to include dynamic hair and cloth...) You can also get DAZ's Mimic, and use automated lip synching for your characters....