Regarding the tutorial request, Gr. Geep has some excellent ones available - on Animation, the interface and the graph editor. Do a search for his name here in the forum because he's posted them freely over the years. He's got all of his tutorials available on CD for a low fee and that can be obtained from his web site. I beleive the URL is: http://myweb.cableone.net/geep/ If that's not correct, he's got links to it in his sig in his postings.

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