hello everybody. after one week with carrara i love it. just started to work with bones, so much fun. anyway, the mask thing, well i'm using vegas video 4.0. my solution is to make the background and plane total white. then i render the scene with my object (whatever it may be) then i render the same scene but i change the texture of the object i am rendering to pure black. in vegas i invert the movie (the masking part) and waa la, my instant mask, with shadow and all

thank you. i was wondering about the animation part. so i can output a series of tiff files? or can i render an uncomnpressed avi file thanks again for your help and to why i deleted the post....ummmm..slip of the mouse