WOW! Good morning NANCY! I'll just say two things in agreement. 1) My son is graduating highschool, and wants to be a game designer. Not programmmer...charcter/level/game designer. In this culture, there is little incentive to draw anything. He has encounterd a fine teacher in senior year high who has started him drawing however. I told him "look for a college that teaches you life drawing before 3DSMax." He found it, Westwood College here in Los Angeles. We spoke to the dean of that program to ask what software they use. "Well, the game he will design to get his Bachelor's Degree will be in 3DSMax, but for most of the time, when storyboarding and brainstorming, we just pass around sketches." 2) "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams. ::::: Opera :::::