CompuServe Messages

I could live with a day per video second … at least for now <g>…. I'm aware that I have a long learning curve ahead of me, and I'm not altogether sure that Playmation will be the only animation software I use; it's just that, at the moment, I'm intrigued by this "spline-based patch modeler", which can do some really-quirky things with surfaces; that, and the fact that I haven't seen any other software designed for _figure_ animation (as opposed to moving rigid things like bowling pins): I have a concept based on Jonn Serrie's _Gentle:_The_Night_ in mind, for which any animation package would be able to do just about everything (and Aladdin's "gaseous" model would be a tremendous help) — EXCEPT animate the "Space Bird" in the "flexible metal" design I envision. Just wait until I start asking all the REALLY dumb questions, like "How do I tape this shlock?" and "Why CAN'T I stretch a Lo-Res picture to fill a Video Overscan frame?" (I may even come up with dumber ones than that; give me a little time….)