Many good ideas here, but I found the real problem and possibly the fix by accident.  Last Friday my computer crashed and  tech support had sympathy but little help.  Since I use my computer for business I needed to recover pronto so I bought a replacement. My old computer was 3.0 Mhz, 32bit, 4 GB RAM, 80GB HD, XPProfessional.  The new one is 2.7Mhz dual cores, 32Bit, 2 GB RAM, 500GB HD XP Professional.  Carbonite provided crashed files and after re-installing my progys I was amazed to find P8 dials operating very smoothly and normally (not jerking).  IMHO dual cores solved the jerky dials and two render threads really sped up IL renders.    Best wishes for happy holidays.

DUH!  Turns out the "Fix" for this is to use "Fast" Tracking and not "Full" tracking, per SM.  Works great. 

Procrustes - Excellent example and I agree with you completely.  The face you present is artistically and esthetically accurate. Thank you.

I have been following this thread with great interest and the work you all have done is amazing.  This may well be the forerunner of an entirely new direction for poserholics.  Purely in the spirit  of constructive criticism, IMHO the eyes and brows are a tad high and the mouth a tad low for the normal female face.  But anyway, this sure is an interesting project.

SM indicated they had experienced the problem with P8 and graphic pads and suggested I get a new driver for my Wacom.  I did and it improved slightly, but the dial action is still not as smooth as it should be IMHO.

TWolf:   unchecking the tablet mode makes no difference I can see. Thanks anyway.

I guess I'm glad others have noticed the problem.  I'm going to mark up a ticket at SM. maynbe they can do something on the next SR.  Thanks all.

T4 -T7,  Arthritic Spondylitis? = GabaPenten, maybe?  See your GP.

Well, How to begin.  Anyone notice that the price of rice, corn, copper and other commodities, including oil have continued their upward spiral when the dollar is recovering nicely, the subprime mortgage "crisis" has been discounted, the world (including the Chinese and Indians) are using less oil (recession?)?  Could it be that the spiral is due to speculation in petroleum and other futures markets.  Want to see $60 to $70  a barrel oil again.   Raise the margin requirements on oil futures contracts from the low 5 - 15% to 100%.  Anybody remember  when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the Silver market?  Raising the margin to 100% shot them out of the saddle.  Write your politician and suggest higher margin requirements on strategic commodities like fuel and food because the commodity exchanges are government controlled.   Who is responsible?  Ask yourself, if you were a big time commercial banker and  had just taken a horrendous writedown in the value of some of your debt vehicles wouldn't you be tempted to regain some of that lost capital by gambling in the futures market, eh?  We're talking big time hedge fund investment of bns of $.   Think?  Can anyone imagine the friendly arabs, chinese and others who bailed out  those commercial banker with bns not wanting to hedge their bets  (can you say "hedge fund?).
  

Thank you, Anton.

I believe Ulrich Klump was the e-frountier marketing guy I saw on the BBC clip.

Frisketus

Acadia - in the states we have what's called the Uniform Commercial Code.  It covers all commercial transactions if one of the parties is/was a dealer and the goods cost over $500.00.  There are two warranty provisions, (i) warranty for fitness for particular purpose, and (ii) warranty of merechantability.  The former guarantees that the goods will do what they were bought to do.  It can last for a long time (lifetime).  Canada must have a similar law.  There are also options of rejecting non-conforming goods and costs of "cover" (getting a replacement) where there are latent (hidden) defects.  You really should see a lawyer.  "Never negotiate from a position of weakness."  *Testicles.

*Cheers, Frisketus

Amazing!!

Suggest you read up on interpretation in the reference manual.

You are certainly taking a project with a huge amount of time, work and knowledge required.  There are a number of good books on animation and production available.  IMHO the first thing is to get a good plot.  The problem then becomes making it into a screenplay.  When that's done you'll probably need to story board the project in rather complete detail. 

C4D is an excellent modeling program to build about any kind of "set" you need.  BodyPaint will allow you to add colors and textures to your sets.  You also use C4D to model characters and animate them.  Or you can import textured poser characters into your scenes using a program like Interposer Pro. 

If your movies are 30 minutes long, at 24 fps your computer(s) would need to render about 43,000 frames.  If the animation was not too complicated and a frame took 15 minutes to render, you'd need about 10,000 + hours of rendering. Or you can build your own render farm or contact a professional render farm and compress time for a fee.

There are both C4D and animation forums here that may be some help.  Good Luck.

Frisketus

Well, The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Ashcroft IS the law of the land in the U.S.  In it the Supreme Court held that the Child Pornography and Protection Act was unconstitutionally overbroad in prohibiting virtual images of explicit sexual acts involving minors because of 2 previous decisions.

(a) Miller proscribes only images that  (i) appeal to a purient interest, and (ii) patently offend community standards, **and **(iii) lack serious literart, artistic, political or scientific values.

(b) Ferber proscribes production and distribution of child pornography because they are intrinsically related to sexual abuse of real children.

So, because ther CCPA prohibits much more than Miller allows and virtual porn can't be shown to harm real kids as Ferber sets forth, the CCPA can't be enforced as to virtual images.

Finally, the question of whether something should  (or should not) be done and the question of whether something IS (or is not) being done are two entirely different questions.