When I first bought Bryce 4 it's the animation that got me hooked. Creating a flying saucer just looked so easy to do with Bryce. And was too. Both Poser and Bryce have sort of charisma and it was then I felt both programs had to be married. The downside to making animations is that it takes a long time. Sure the sample animation on the site came about pretty quickly but when you render at a much higher (1280 x 1024 and higher) those rendertimes take a long time. And there's just no good way around rendertimes since the bottleneck here is Bryce and computers. To get accurate pictures you have to go raytracing like Bryce does -not shadow mapping. The movie and TV people use hundreds of computers to do the job. Yet anyway it's great that even layman can produce something that is truly comparable to "high-end" 3d. Your 3s skills is what counts more. A decade ago there was almost nothing for the consumer with $200 bucks in his pocket for 3d.