Thanks for your suggestions. I'll try 'em out and let you know how it goes. Seems like grouping the camera and thus creating an additional hot point as Kixum suggests should do the trick. I'm not trying to spiral, I'm trying to twirl. (I don't know, but "twirl" , I think, signifies the motion typical of a lasso or skip rope, i.e.; revolving at an angle from the axis). While I'm thinking about it . . . is it possible to import beziers for motion paths? Earlier I tried to import a circle path (as an .eps) from photoshop, but it never arrived in carrara. -DN