Before you misunderstand me, I am not critisizing Animation Master. I do think it is an incredible program, just like I think ZBrush, Project Messiah and Vue are all incredible programs for their price. Poser is was originally meant to be an artists posing tool, where-as Animation Master was meant to be an animation program. The users of Poser have driven Poser towards more animation features, and the ready made content for Poser is the one major advantage. >>It was created so that one person, with one computer, and ONE program could create an animated film. Yes, but what if you had to animate a scene with 20 people, a dog, a car and buildings. You would have to model them. And that scene comprizes 12 seconds of your ninety minute film. That is where the strength of Poser comes to the fore, setting up an animated scene with those elements made from pre-made models saves you incredible amounts of time. That is what I use Poser for. For the close up scenes I model my own characters (yes, in an outside modelling program), but for the background and incidental objects I have almost 11000 objects in my Poser library. Need a tin can, just go to the library, get one, place it and render. No modelling needed. And this saves time. And time is what I need more of. I think if Animation Master had the ready made content available that Poser has, and a user base that were not so insistant on making EVERYTHING themselves, it would gain a lot of popularity and a lot of Poser users would start using it. >>"PS. Poser 6 has more features, and is more powerful than the program that made the dragon in Dragonheart, or the program used for the first Jurrasic Park." >>Really? So Poser 6 can do those really cool liquid effects from Terminator 2? Because T2 and Jurassic Park(1, 2, and 3) And DragonHeart 1 and 2, and MIB 1 and 2, AND the CG effects in ALL 6 episodes of Star Wars, used the same software, a combination of SoftImage, Caricature(ILM's in-house software), RenderMan, and Alias (It wasn't Maya yet, was it?) No, I am not saying it can do all the effects. I am saying that it is a more powerful program. George Lucas himself, in an interview about fan films said that one person on his home computer with a ready made package has more CG power available than he had when he started Star Wars. When he made Star Wars one he didn't have all the options he wanted, hence the adding in of scenes later by digital processes. And yes, I have animated a scene similar to the scene of the melting cop in Terminator 2 with Poser. This can actually be done in any 3D program. You don't even need liquid effects to do it.

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