I'm impressed with the native Poser import option in Carrara 5! It seems like the figures have even better bending and rigging than they did in Poser itself! Very cool stuff! Now if I could just learn how to animate the rig, I'll be in business! Quick question: does Carrara allow you to link helper objects to groups of bones for faster, more efficient animating? Some apps, like the 3dsmax demo I used a while ago, allowed groups of bones to be linked to a "dummy" object, and when I moved the dummy object, it moved those bones with proper IK, etc. It made posing/animating hands, spine, and things like that easier.