"Tunsey...how would you compare Carrara's animation tools (dope sheet, graphs, etc.) with poser's?" Up to now I've used Poser's animation tool set exclusively for character animation and Carrara for rendering because that was the only work flow choice available with C4Pro/Poser. When P5Pro gets here on monday I'm looking forward to seeing how the workflow of animating Poser figures within Carrara goes. I won't be disappointed if it becomes apparent that doing character animation within Poser turns out to be more efficient than doing it within Carrara. That's a good question though. I'm surprised I haven't seen a single thread on that topic. The reason I'm not really concerned about it is because sometimes we forget that Poser has a pretty good animation tool set. No one will ever confuse it with Animation Master, but it's pretty good ;) It won't bother me at all to continue to animate within Poser and import to Carrara to render. Ooo, but maybe the work flow within Carrara will be better )) Hehe. I dunno yet )