Here is the best advice to those of you trying to animate. Get up, turn off your computer, and go outside! All the software packages are traps. You have to pay for upgrades and plugins. You see other software packages that you HAVE to have. Everything has tutorials and manuals you have to study. You end up spending all of your time in front of a monitor. You develop carpal tunnel syndrome and eye problems. You always need a faster machine, better video card and monitor, and more memory! It is a trap! Time and $$$$$. Example. I bought Mimic a couple of years ago. It was a nice program but I didn't do much with it. I did buy a text-to-speech synthesizer program. Nice but no substitute for a human voice. Then I bought Mimic Pro II and really got into it. I had been considering getting a voice transformer for several years. Finally bought one, the Boss VT-1. Great what you can do with it. There are units that do more but are much more expensive. Now I am thinking about getting one of those. I was happy with animations with a few sound effects, but now I want sound tracks with multiple voices and sound effects. A lot of sound software came with my sound card which I had refused to learn. Now I sort of have to. I am even thinking about Virtual Reality and 3d Goggles. I understand Adobe Atmosphere is what you need. More manuals to read and more future upgrades. I'd stand up and walk away except my legs no longer seem to work except to go to the bathroom or to get a cold beer. Besides, I no longer have any money left to go anywhere.