Actually, I'm working on the script and storyboarding of a couple of story concepts at the moment; whichever one bites harder gets the first stab at it. You can save a lot of time if you get your script right and lay your shots out far in advance; even stick figures and hand drawn scenery of the 3 year old quality is better than nothing. It is a lot easier to write yourself out of a corner than it is to suddenly decide to trash 9000 frames because the story was stalling on you..... It actually isn't terribly hard or expensive to assemble a good quality pipeline over time, with a lot of careful shopping. Animating figures with Poser, of course. Vue 6 Infinite is the renderer as well as the environment generator. Premiere Pro for finished footage editing. After Effects 7 Pro for postwork. Audition for audio editing and Encore for authoring (and through the magic of ebay and careful shopping...and getting a version a couple of releases back that was legal and unregistered, making it eligible for the upgrade pricing at Adobe....you can assemble the equivalent of the production studio for far less than retail). PSP 8 instead of Photoshop, but it does what I need at the moment, and learning AE is bear enough.... :P Sonic Fire Pro 4 for the scoring (the SmartSound multilayer music tracks are wonderful to work with; If, say, you like the drum rythym in a selection, you can disable the other layers and just use the drum...or other instument groups. And the avialable disks span a wide range of music...and more come out fairly regularly). Rendergarden/farms aren't that hard to assemble, either. Just let your friends and neighbors know that you'll take that older computer off their hands, and you have a start. Just strip the audio and other useless bits out, and you have a free node to add. With the current price wars, you can -buy- the parts at Newegg for a considerable system (Asus A8V-VM microATX with onboard video, a gig of Kingston DDR-400 Valueram, and Athlon 64-3200+ socket 939, and a pair of 80gig SATA 3.0 WD drives for a RAID 0 array) for about $300. Add WinXP, and you can use the renderfarm to run the AE render engines for distributed rendering of your postwork. tvining: Have you checked out the features in Vue 6 Infinite? Among them is the ability to adjust the pose of a Poser character from within Vue. As well as support for the shader tree in P6-7. It is still in a pre-release state, so bugs and issues are being found and addressed, so it isn't ready for prime time. But you may want to experiment with whatever demo they release.Might be what you are looking for... -Has- anyone heard how yoshi mo-cap is doing on that project? The videos of the app are incredible...