I'm about to purchase Poser 2012 and give animation a try. I'd like to pose (no pun intended) a few questions just to get an overview.

I'm assuming to get a higher quality animation I set up an animation, render each frame into png's and then purchase some sort of software that connects all the pngs into an animation. Is this correct?

Secondly, assuming weight mapping is not a road atlas that sits firmly on my dashboard, what is it?

Please reply slowly, using small words.