Hi mullman,

Thanks very much for your excellent advice and for introducing me to ES3D and Renderotica. 

I actually bought Poser a few days after my original post. It has more features and options than DS of course but I still like to use DS aswell because it's quality is just as high as Poser in my opinion. I also purchased a motion pack for Poser from this site. It was only £6 and it includes about a dozen dance animations. Unfortunately I don't think any of them are suitable really, so I'll have a good look at the 2 sites you mentioned and hopefully find something else.

As for exporting, I've been exporting animations to AVI and using 123 AVI to GIF converter (a nice little program). Gimp looks interesting though, so I'll check that out shortly.

I'm finding that when I render my 200x200 animations I have to do a preview render rather than a higher quality. This is because often there's several hundred frames and to do anything other than a preview render would take far too long (on my computer anyway). So it's a bit of a shame that my animations look nowhere near as good as my still images, but having said that they're adequate for a chatroom. Apart from that I should have it done soon when I find a cool enough looking dance. :)

Thanks again.
Darren