heya; well, today i messed with animation tests and i found out my problem. i loaded the sample picture of the... you know, the tall one with the log and the frog and butterfly? for the background. for some reason, that image will NOT animate. when i hit the filmstrip thing, i get a weird error that says 'hint: you can only animate the first camera.' animating the figure for a motion blur thing worked fine, when i loaded it into a blank world. ::sigh:: thanks for the tips, though, kate! :)