not sure I agree with 'animation' being a reason to not buy bryce. Bryce renders too slow to make animations in any decent amount of time. Of course, some of the hard core brycers do use it for animations..but I myself do not. My main blast with B5 is the render times. I dont use bryce5 any more (except for trees) because its just too dammed slow. I just have it on my computer now to answer questions. Otherwise, itd be a 'coaster' for my beer can while I work in Bryce 4. If 6 doesnt improve in speed, I probably will not get it. 5 lost some features that I used (probably just overlooked because they didnt know they were there cause its keyboard stuff) but with that and the increased render times...shrug anyhow, maybe 5 will import poser animations..but animations in general (ie keyframes from many apps like max, lightwave, and others) is probably just spitting into the wind. BT