hello.
Thanks for responding,Yes i do this for a living and how ever frugal the rewards are, I wouldt change,
The poser 7 render times are roughly the same as Im getting and the results are really good,the problem is the time it takes.I have to render at night whilst I sleep and about 60 frames is a night render.Its true that more time spent on rendering the less creative time you have.
Right now Im up to 380 frames rendered of a 420 finished animation,so I would save something in the order of 50 mins on the total?
Interestingly you mention camera zooms and pans I feel that these seem to take up a great deal of rescoures? but without them the animation seems to be lifeless.
The artifacte you mention in P 8,are they just a question of the render settings and cosequently can be reset, is it inherant in P8?
Once again thanks for your render info,
The scenes you show look very good and if you ever get around to finishing it would love to see it.
kind regards.

Peter