Hi Rance01

I appreciate your encouragement and truly I don't want to wrap up using Poser but you see there are problems that I can't resolve. I keep being told to learn more about it and read tutorials and thats the point, there are few tutorials that truly deal with Poser Animation in depth and secondly, with these bugs in the software nobody anywhere is going to be able explain the depths of it when it goes haywire no matter what you do.

I am using Poser 9 Demo version. I have been using Poser for about a year and a half and I want to do animation with it.

As I said I am a novice with it but it seems to me that you should be able to Pose fugures with IK turned on and get the pose right, kneeling, crouching etc. without having a figure fly all over the place when you turn the IK off. It simply doesn't work properly, why do they even bother making IK available with animation? Whether you use keyframes on the body or hip or whatever it still doesn't resolve anything.

My guess is that these problems run deep inside Poser and putting it right would need a complete rewrite of the entire animation side. I also think that there are so few tutorials out there for animation because they have all encountered these issues and the bits that work is what they tell you about and that's not much.

I'm all for trying hard to get my ballet dancer characters to dance together and look right even if it takes a few years but the problem is compounded with bad software and is likely to never to be achieved.

Somebody has suggested that I give DAZ Studio a try but I know nothing about that package or if it also has bugs!

I absolutely respect the people here who do make amazing animation with these tools hats off to all of you.