PoseMagic is not IK. I've struggled enough with posing characters to know when I see a good thing that's going to make my life easier. The major breakthroughs in posing started with IK and ERC. Then over a year ago a python script caught my eye, PoseGenie. It worked by using a "target" and "seeker." Then it ran through all the caluations to find one that would require the least about of dial spins to place the seeker where you wanted it, the target. I was never able to use it because it was PC only. Me still pouting about not being able to use PoseGenie and reading about people on the forums who wanted to to use BVH pose animations on Apollo, the clever Kamichle came to the rescue with the brillant pose translation python scripts for both Humanoid figures and Animals! PuppetMaster BiPed and QuadPed. So now you can exactly translate V3 hand poses to SP or Aiko, import your old Dork animation poses and use them on Daz Gecko! LOL! You can even do sick things like using the Eagle shoot animation on non-bird creatures. Have your Unicorn shoot and fall from the sky. Plus, I really like the "distubute pose" feature which will smooth tail poses, no matter if the orignal pose had only 3 tail segments, PM:BiPed will male that tail smooth. =D Now there's a kickass easy posing helper, PoseMagic. It's great! I love it! This is a way better way to create poses. You can move much faster in setting up a pose. It works on a Mac, works in P4, and is infact, very simple, and very fast. It makes you wonder why no one thought it before, in fact. To make truely realistic poses WILL take time, effort, and talent, but PoseMagic speeds up that process by at least half, and also allows for more experimentation. Pose Magic will also work with poses already in your library. Dizzi is making a helper app that will translate hybrid PoseMagic/PZ2 pose into one clean PZ2. I wouldn't be surprised if both PoseMagic and PuppetMaster became the new standards for posing apps. bB