I don't consider myself an animator yet, but the hardest part of trying to learn it in Poser has always been working with the graph editor. I've never had any luck with it. I feel animation should be something more natural than messing around with curves and graphs. On the other hand, I once used Character Studio in 3dsmax 8 demo version, and it seemed a lot more intuitive to me. I was able to get at least some natural looking motion out of the biped without having to fiddle about with the graph curves. It seemed really cool. Unfortunately, I was just teasing myself since I can't afford 3dsmax or Maya anyway, but it was nice to dream. haha. I now have Carrara, and hope to continue learning animation with it. Hopefully, I won't have to go into the motion editor as often as I had in Poser.