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Well I work at R/Greenberg Associates in NY and we use Softimage. It's pretty good, but I wish we had other packages as well. As far as facial animation, the best I've seen is from Prisms. You have all types of control over how to deform your face. I haven't used it personally however, I have heard many great things about it.. A;ias is great for modelling, but the animation still needs work. Nothing really compares to the the ease of use and efficiency of Softimage, but maybey with a little work, Alias will catch up.. Another package to absolutely look at is Wavefront with Explore. There you have Nurbs modelling, superb particle animation, great cloth , and much much more.. >What is the best way to capture facial movements and gestures? Maybey a waldo device. It is optical based and captures pretty good facial deformations.. I don't know the price on that system. >I hear Alias V6 has channels, is anyone using this in conjunction with motion capture hardware? We are not using Motion Capture with Alias, however we are using it with Softimage… We have the Ascension Flock of Birds, which isn't all that great. We have had tons of problems with it. We did those three Shell, dancing cars and pumps commercials, as well as a couple of others using motion capture.. I would recommend an optical based motion capture system, however they may be more expensive. The Flock of Birds will run you about 35K. Are you starting up a company? Fred Nilsson fred@rga.com