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Grady, I am as innovative as anyone you will ever meet. But I am pretty heavy into Sci-Fi, which mens that I would be using a simple effect like a Lens Flare fairly often. If this was something that AM did over time, then I wouldn't have to add the effect frame by frame in Photoshop. Glow would be another thing that wouldn't need a frame by frame touch up. Would you rather that Hash left out motion blur? An innovative person could create the effect frame by frame, but at what time premium? If you want to take the time to layer multiple ghosts, you can certainly make an object explode, which is what I do, but is there really any harm in asking that the effect be made simpler? I would bet that there is not one single person using any application on any platform that creates more detail than I do. If I have to use 8,000 controls points instead of 300 to make an object look the way I want it to, then I use 8,000 control points. Rendering time can go hang as long my objects look the way I want. There are things that I haven't shown anyone yet, like the planet I created in AM that has clouds moving across the surface in a different direction than the planetary rotation. Technological advancement is innovation in itself. Sure, there a a few different ways that man could have kept warm, but fire was much simpler. I don't think that anyone is any less of an animator or artist just because they want things easier. I for one would like to spend more time creating and less time problem solving. Michael S. Flynn