A while back DaleB pointed me to a rotoscoping solution for animation. He wrote: As for rotoscoping over a character's face; if you have P5 you can do it easily. It supports .avi files as textures on alpha planes. Just plop a plane in front of your character and run the avi on it (maybe with a script that puts a GUI slider on your desktop that alters the transparency of the plane in realtime, so you can set the level of visibility of the model, or do the 'reference on-model invisible, reference off-model only' check for accuracy). Well, I am ready to try, but I am floundering. I can't find "alpha plane" in the manual, in the tutorials or in a search of the forum. Is that the same as putting a rectangle primitive prop in the scene? And as for attaching the .avi, well i created a 'rectangle' prop, went into the materials room and WAS able to get a the movie attached to the 'difuse color' node for the rectangle....but nothing resulted. I hope dale sees this or if anyone else can help, much appreciated. ::::: Opera :::::