Chin up. There are some nice things in the future. You can't blame Carrara for the Victoria problems. Thats a geometry problem, the C bones are designed to work well with the SDS feature. My suggestion is build your model in Carrara. As far as linkages and bone structure being complicated, thats the nature of the beast, it take animators hours in Maya to tweak and retweak linkages and FK and IK. Granted they are quite different programs and there aren't so many bugs..lol. Anyway, just keep the chin up, there are some good things in the future for Carrara I'm sure. Brian