Yo, atthisstage !!!. Yep! it's pretty funny and downright annoying sometimes to realise that your hours of animation in poser turns out to be infested with overlaps, creases, bends and all sorts of artefacts :-{ !!!!. Yeah some would argue that you are not animating right. But then again where are the reference materials for one to animate right in poser or to turn to in times of distress judging by poser's unique animation interface and IK. Even the poser manual dedicates a pathetic twenty-something pages to animation and the editing graph system. Yeah poser might not be as robust as other "high end" softwares out there (...what is high end anyway? ), but hey, it can do the job. There are scores of books out there talking about animation in specific softwares ( Maya, 3D Max, Lightwave etc ) And they say it on their covers too :-) !!!! Moreover, it's kind of difficult sometimes to translate some of the tips gleaned from these books into poser. Yes I share your point 150% about poser's IK. Honestly it seems to know when best to annoy you with overlaps and figures that seem to defy gravity :-] !!!! Curious Labs should look into it if poser is to rise from the back room it's been pushed into. But in the mean time I believe we all can overide the limitations somehow by way of having all these wonderful, expert poser folks look into it and publish information about it. Today, poser can be imported into 3D Max and Lightwave. What else could one wish for? With poser's ease of animation and better rendering offered by these softwares, infinity and beyond should be the limit :-) !!!!!! I for one, I'm still doing my home work and researching into mastering poser animation, overlaps and all !!! It's really very refreshing to hear your woes with poser animation too. And hey. How do you know we are the only people? I think it's about time a book addressed poser A-N-I-M-A-T-I-O-N and less of poser P-O-S-I-N-G. Let's make 'em move !!!!!