When i purchased Poser, I needed all the help I could find... and I admit I used a gift certificate at Barnes and Noble for "The POSER 4 handbook" by Shamms Mortier. Of all the things that I have purchased for my Poser habit... that has to be most useless item of them all. The best help you can get is here at Renderosity, lot of great helpful people here. Also the User guide that came with Poser... mine looks like hell, but I refer to often... and I have not even tried the Animation part....yet. niles :)