The more I use it, the gi seems less useful for animation of poser characters. While it can look really nice, the render times are often prohibitive. Let's hope we'll see improvements in this area. an idea, make it a real pro version, and write code to offload processor intensive stuff to advanced gpus like the x1900 ati and 7800 nvidias. I know other software is starting to use these mammoth cards to do more than speed up display times and qualities. cause let's face it, during render time, the video card becomes useless to us, but make it a helper to the rendering and it is reborn, and makes it easier to justify a $500-$600 card. I wont buy one over $300 now, but make it assist in calculation of rendering and I'm in for double!