Hey all, I have been poking around some and am concluding that LW may be my best bet. I am actively looking at some legal sales at eBay for getting a deal on LW 6 with a valid license transfer. If that is successful I can start that learning curve and then decide if and when to upgrade to LW7. I did look at the independent Natural Pose program which seems to be a keeper, particularly since I am part way into learning Bryce and this seems to be a viable solution for moving animations from Poser to Bryce. I would like to keep as simple as possible in my first animations...Poser+Bryce in Final Cut Pro and try to learn something like LW over the next 12-18 months to improve the product. Looking forward to posting some output!!! In the meantime anyone might checkout my sons instrumental works at www.mp3.com/patrickglant. I have removed the downloads, but if those out there who are helping me want a download I can arrange a "secretly disclosed" time when the downloads can be switched on or send the larger files by MSN messenger directly. If you think that the music files could be a good freeby on Renderosity, let me know...we could likely make that happen. Thanks Again ALL!!!