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Hi Judy, I just wanted to agree with David M's comments, it's the artist/animator who makes things look good more than the tools that he/she uses. Cryo (a 3rd party developer for Mindscape, formerly The Software Toolworks) has done some amazing stuff (check out Megarace). I would venture to guess that they fell victim to the classic production schedule craziness on Dragon's Lore. In my experience, production schedules for these types of titles are generated by the marketing departments, who generally have no grasp on reality whatsoever. Major quality/time comprimises are frequently made with no regard to their effect on the product's integrity. My guess is that they took their time creating the backgrounds and worlds, then got heavily crunched to deliver the product so they had to rush the animation. Or it's possible that the animation was done by someone completely different. Just my thoughts, -Heinz.