yeppers - i'm self taught in the arts - but i am way beyond doing animated gifs - hehe :) also, if you have CuteMX you can download a preview of my work and one last thing regarding an earlier comment i made. I'm building my videos using various tools (Poser, Ray Dream Studio, 3d Studio Max, etc.) and they all come together within Adobe Premiere. I use the DivX MPEG-4 codec before converting to RealMedia.