I kinda looked at Pantomine. Powerpose is nice, easier than carrara's method. If Pantomine is that much easier might be worth a look. You could then do a basic animation, as a pz2 and tweak it in Carrara. (At least you should be able to, haven't tried exporting a pz2 animation out of D|S) I have been bringing that one up a bit. :D Carrara's animation tools need to be tweaked a bit. D|S really has great OGL interaction. If Carrara had that, man what a difference. Both need a way to reuse motions.  I don't care for D|S not having a freely available SDK. Anybody know what the fee for that is?

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.