Thanx all... I've cranked the shadow map, and it doesn't help. I've used just about everycolor background I can think of. I've placed "fill" lights all around the characters. I've tried turning anti-aliasing off/on. I was hoping I'd missed something, but it seems I didn't. The only thing that seems to work, and it's time consuming as all hell, is to custom make masks. I render the character completely white, with the background black. Assemble the animation into a filmstrip, change the black to red, and the white to dark red, and then edit the pallet to get rid of every color, then return the image to black and white, and paste over the color image. Oh, well. Thanx anywho.