" tools are weaker than in poser" I think that's wrong. Maybe a Carrara/Poser guru will chime in for clarification. Forgot to mention the graphs in Carrara. Here's a partial screen grab just showing the graph. (The red/green/blue lines are distorted from compression of the pic. They are smooth lines within Carrara.) The green curves look odd because Im just experimenting with different interpolation and treatments of tangents or keys. (I really like having handles on individual tangents to adjust the shape of the curve. That will come in handy.) What we see in Poser as 'twist, side-side, bend' parameters, for example, show up in Carrara with different labels in a rather busy panel. There's nothing inherently wrong with this though. It just takes a little practice to get used to. It's nice being able to have 'twist, side-side, bend' on the same graph with a bunch of options on how to treat each tangent, as they call it in Carrara. You can also filter out non-animated and non-transform tracks to simplify the panel a bit. Frankly, I think I probably will end up doing most of my Poser animating within Carrara soon. Just need a little more practice to be able to work with it more quickly. Note that the constraint and key curves manipulations, a pretty powerful feature, available in Carrara are entirely absent in Poser.