for some reason the same thing happens to me... i'll make a bitch'n picture... then try and render it and it kinda like freezes up then i loose all my work cause i'm an idiot and i don't like to save stuff... but my computer is cooler than my grandma and it can handle the stuff i throw at it.. but when i use vicki and micheal it will freeze when i try to render the scene... i can do one at a time but when i have any 2 or more characters (vicki or mike) it don't work! any one have answers?! I can handle the truth!