I dont know if you remember or not but a few months ago I was asking about a render problem with a model of the earth..Carrara kept leaving little black holes in the model. I came to the same conclusion...I had to dump the cellular shader in the bump channel and get rid of a cloud primitive. Looks like some of the info has problems working well with each other. Sometimes I am tempted to learn lightwave or max, but have you ever seen how hard it is just to put in some text? What a pain. I think Carrara is my fav b/c I am so lazy :) I dont know what I am going to do when clients realize that spinning there logo/name over a quickie landscape I made with 4 winds requires little to no work! Well congrads on figuring out your animation...post up some samples when its done :)