I have no idea if this would work, because I have never tried, but if you can hide body parts during an animation, could you not have two figures, a skeleton and a muscle mapped figure animated in sync (no reference to the "musical" group :) Then hide the parts you want to ignore? Just a suggestion, which I am far too lazy to try out tonight (have never really played with the animation part) The biggest problem I could see, if this is even possible, is that the mike figure from daz and the skeleton probably wouldn't match very well (I suspect the poser 4 guy might, if you could find a good mat file for him) eric