I can't afford it at the moment but I'd love to have Bryce aswell. I understand it's a serious 3D app. I hope you enjoy using it and get the results you want.

I tend to agree about the large number of frames contained in motion pack animations. The dance sequence I'm currently using (but not for long) is 560 frames and it's not meant to be looped either. So it's about 19 seconds and the GIF is about 5.5 megs. I really need something a lot shorter that can be looped, because 5.5 megs for a chatroom logo is too much to download really. I'll try and find a preset I like that fits the bill but I may have to create my own, without the use of a motion capture facility. It must be very difficult to manually create realistic human movements though.

As for the frame rate, I can quite easily adjust that in the AVI-GIF converter I'm using. I'm finding 30 fps is more appropriate at the moment, but 15 fps would certainly help with the file size.

That's a good idea to leave it rendering overnight for a high quality render. The thing is though, Poser doesn't actually tell you how long it's going to take in minutes and seconds, just how many frames have been rendered. So you have to sit and watch it for a while and work out if it's going to take hours or days. 12 hours is about the maximum I'd be willing to wait, so any more than that is not worth it in my opinion.

Anyway, I shall soldier on with it. :) Your thoughts about this are much appreciated and useful aswell.

Thanks,
Darren