I'm visiting here from the Rhino forum. Can you help me with a quick question. My 17-year old son wants to take an Animation and Modeling course at the college next year (using Maya). His one year of Rhino experience satisfies the modeling prereq. It is suggested he become acquainted with animating bipds and quadripeds before the class starts. They use Animation Master for the basic courses, but I don't see it being used anywhere. How about Poser? Using only the wooden maniquin (sp?), are the Poser basics hard to pick up? What is the learning curve like? Sure, becoming expert takes time, but he needs only to become familiar with the concepts. What do you think? Now, the Poser forum is probably the wrong place to get an objective opinion, but try :) thanks