Hello Opera, yes I did think about Animation Master a good while back - in some ways I wish I had started animating with that program as it's geared up to animate first and foremost and I remember seeing an animation done with it that was very impressive. I'm so used to Poser now and in some ways I'm just getting the hang of it. I did get so fed up with Poser however that I went out and bought Softimage XSI - surely this will solve all my problems. But XSI is just too complicated - sure it will do what I want if I invest hours and hours of time learning to use it. Only one reasonably good free rig is available for XSI but I'm not keen on it - so again I'm stuck.