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Under Windows, the most likely generic format to deploy an embedded animation in would be AVI (Video for Windows) since you can ship a free runtime engine along with your app. MS makes such available and you can be fairly certain that it will work on current and future versions of Windows. Are you developing the software so that you can easily do the integration of the animation or is this an add-on to a 3rd party system? You could contract out the generation of the animation so that you don't have to invest in the software and more important the learning curve. <throat clearing…> Someone like… well um like myself… could turn around a few seconds of flying logo stuff like that in a couple of days if it is as straight-forward as you say. The system I most commonly use for 3D animation is Animation Master from Hash Inc. of Vancouver WA. You can get it for something just over $700.00 I think. There is the POVRay system much in evidence up here which can be had for probably the download cost. I got it in a book. Hmm, it looks like my 12yr old son must have run off with it. Also there is POLYRAY, another shareware level system. Overall, I think you will find that your greatest cost is time invested in learning such systems – even commercial systems which will cost you more and are easier to learn. Best of luck. Sounds fun. Sincerely, Breanna Anderson