What I like to do for animations is render what I need from MAX, then insert the characters into it with Poser. It's a pretty painless process, even camera movement never seems to be a problem, but one thing that might be totally simple (but isn't - at least for me) is getting shadows to show up. Since there is no ground plane (it's in the AVI file), the shadows just won't show up. When I work with it, I can get the shadows posistioned right with the figure, but they are never in the rendering output. Does anyone know a way I can fix this? Shadows are pretty important, otherwise, the audience immediately knows that it was two different programs being used to compile the scenes, and that just steals the effect. Thanks in advance.