As a general rule mastering Poser will not open doors in the job market. Poser, Blender, and a few other programs give more bang for the dollar then most high end programs. But high end programs such as Maya, Lightwave, 3D max is what the studios use. Very few studios are going to take the time for an experience Poser user to learn on one of their high end programs. But some are willing to let someone who has only experience with one high end program to learn another, if their work is good enough. Go figure? Dollar for dollar, the best setup for one person to do animation is Mimic, Poser, Vue. Mimic will save hundreds of hours alone. As said Helgard, Poser is where you do the setup for the People and the objects that they come in contact. Vue is the environment. If I was to do a scene where a man looks up at an airplane shouting. The voice would be recorded and I would use Mimic for the lip-syncing. That file then is imported to Poser where I add the man and all his movements. Vue where the airplane is added. Then rendered. To add a gun to the man its done in Poser. If he is near a brick wall it is done in Vue. If he touches the wall, the wall gets done in Poser. If your really poor and cant afford much. Here is my must buy list. Mimic Poser 5 Vue dEsprit 4 with mover5 One good computer (2 GHz), three slower (800 MHz or better), one four port KVM switch and one hub. (Why a hub over a switch? people are giving them away and they way Im going things it doesnt matter.) This setup will allow you to crank out 15 to 20 seconds a day if you are using all of them. My current hardware setup is 11 coumputers. Two fast ones (2.2 GHz), and nine slower ones (866 MHz) 3 kvm switchs, a 16 port hub and four monitors. Simply overkill. Only one has Mimic on it. They all have Poser and Vue. The environments and even the people dont change that much. One example is where I had two people talking in a school room. Once the room is made, that set will be used for 10 to 100 shots. The same is true for the people, if they are sitting at table in the school room the Poser file that Im starting with doesnt change that much. Fact is I will use the back end of a PZ3 file to start the next shot. Once imported into Vue I render to screen. One computer; one shot. Not across the network. It might take 20 hours to do what the faster ones do in four. But I dont care; I always seem to have a free computer or two. Each program does something better. Poser renders higher quality skin to tones, Vue does environment (Sky, water, buildings ect.) ok. Dale