ianr, the Design Doll looks ultra cool thanks so much!

AmbientShade, Thank you! You guys are awesome! This is the most help I have gotten when talking to people on message boards. You guys have a really cool attitude.

Rorrkonn, honestly I considered going a kind of stick figure route if I could make it look cool at all. I have seen some short animations done like this. My story is so long to finish it in a realistic time frame might be impossible. This is what scares me.

But there's another issue.. I feel this story is incredibly important. That probably sounds crazy but it's the truth. Just explaining what this project is is incredibly difficult. I have been working on it a long long time - full time.

I actually considered making a video game to get my information out.. this is why I like the idea of using the Xnalara figures. I like the designs of the figures too even though they are basic. Also, I woulf try to make the other aspects of the art vert sophisticated - lighting etc.

From what I gathered about the Xnalara figures is that they pose them in XnaLara then export them as objects and put them into another program to render. Is there a quick way to translate them and still keep the rigging I think it's called? Or do you have to use the method I described first - pose and export?