Wow ..that is some effect!!  

Thanks, guys!

X - ray shader is amazing ... but I cannot have the characters looking like Scenes from the Crypt either ... LOL  .. and they are not into scary or freaky ...  just "invisible" ... for the most part.
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I want to make them semi-visible where they interact in the normal plane of existence ... soles of feet, hands which grasp staffs or torches, and at the moment of fire on/in the water the eyes should fade in, briefly (sans all the sockets, etc, just eyes and lids).   

The props are the costume design here: www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php
It will adeauately catch the motion through the animation (this design was actually the impetus for the animation, but we are a safe-view for everyone shop, so the bodies have to go invisible (& --don't want body-suits .. less aesthetic and way less mystical)).

So as totally amazing as the body bones view is, (and that is something!!) ... It won't work for this particular set of animations.

Putting 22 figures into PS and editing seems like a gargantuan task, esp for every frame of an extended animation ... I see where you are coming from and for a set of single images, fine, but for some 300+. frames ... or more (for the grotto) ... I don't think this is the way to go.  

I might manage a test frame to bring over this way, however. 

I should manage to get Poser Pro installed by the  23rd or the 27th depending on if you can download a copy while you wait for your snail mail copy to arrive.  Not that I mind downloaded copies .. I am just never certain if I am including bogus stuff when I burn them to CD/DVD.  

Thanks!  Have a good weekend.  ;-)